Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-21 Thread Zero Piraeus
: On 20 October 2012 20:22, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Based on the documentation, most of that pattern is fluff: (?#...) is considered a comment. The comment isn't entirely fluff ... it provides a Google target for whoever's marking OP's assignment, should they

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-20 Thread contro opinion
the pattern `re.compile(.(?#nyh2p){0,1})` , make me confused, can you explain how it can match the first letter of every word? 2012/10/20 Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:03:46 -0400, Zero Piraeus sche...@gmail.com declaimed the following in

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, contro opinion contropin...@gmail.com wrote: the pattern `re.compile(.(?#nyh2p){0,1})` , make me confused, can you explain how it can match the first letter of every word? It doesn't. pattern = re.compile(.(?#nyh2p){0,1}) pattern.findall(a test of

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-20 Thread MRAB
On 2012-10-21 00:14, contro opinion wrote: the pattern `re.compile(.(?#nyh2p){0,1})` , make me confused, can you explain how it can match the first letter of every word? It matches all of the characters, plus an empty string at the end. It's equivalent to: result = for c in a test

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: for match in re.findall(pattern, a test of capitalizing): ... result = f(result + match) result = result + f(match) Or closer... Don't both with f and str.capitalize result = result +

change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-19 Thread contro opinion
how can i use regular expression in python to change the string a test of capitalizing into A Test Of Capitalizing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-19 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/20/2012 12:09 AM, contro opinion wrote: how can i use regular expression in python to change the string a test of capitalizing into A Test Of Capitalizing? is that (regex) part of the assignment, or just how you assumed you'd want to do it? There is a str method already called

Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

2012-10-19 Thread Zero Piraeus
: On 20 October 2012 00:09, contro opinion contropin...@gmail.com wrote: how can i use regular expression in python to change the string a test of capitalizing into A Test Of Capitalizing? import re pattern = re.compile(.(?#nyh2p){0,1}) result = f = str.title for match in