[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Steve Dower added the comment: Oh, apart from the What's New section. But this looks enough like a bugfix (previous behaviour "wasn't capitalizing my name correctly" - new behaviour "now capitalizes my name correctly") that it's hardly critical to advertise it on that page. --

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Steve Dower added the comment: What is missing? It looks like everything on Serhiy's list was done. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Zackery Spytz added the comment: I think that the PR may have been merged too quickly. Serhiy had made a list, and I think that the PR was missing some necessary changes. -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz ___ Python tracker

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Steve Dower added the comment: Thanks! I'm a big fan of this change :) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset b015fc86f7b1f35283804bfee788cce0a5495df7 by Steve Dower (Kingsley M) in branch 'master': bpo-36549: str.capitalize now titlecases the first character instead of uppercasing it (GH-12804)

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Change by Kingsley McDonald : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +12731 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Kingsley McDonald added the comment: Thanks for clarifying all of that! I now have the patch and tests working locally. However, I'm not too sure what documentation needs to be changed for str.title. Should it specify that only the first letter of digraphs are capitalised, rather than the

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This issue is easy if you know C. * Find the implementation of str.capitalize in unicodeobject.c and make it using the title case. See on the implementation of str.title for example. * Find tests for str.capitalize and aďd new cases. Finding the proper

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Change by STINNER Victor : -- nosy: -vstinner ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Kingsley McDonald added the comment: Hello there, I'm an absolute beginner here and this whole thing is a little overwhelming, so please bear with me. I think this would be a suitable first task for me to take on because it appears to be a simple one-line change (correct me if I'm

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think this is a reasonable change. Also the docs for str.title() should be fixed. -- components: +Interpreter Core, Unicode keywords: +easy (C) nosy: +ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner stage: -> needs patch type: -> enhancement versions:

[issue36549] str.capitalize should titlecase the first character not uppercase

New submission from Steven D'Aprano : str.capitalize appears to uppercase the first character of the string, which is okay for ASCII but not for non-English letters. For example, the letter NJ in Croatian appears as Nj at the start of words when the first character is capitalized: Njemačka