[issue7008] str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I agree with the OP that str.title should be made smarter. As it stands, it is a likely bug factory that would pass unittests, then generate unpleasant results with real user inputs. Extending on Thomas's comment, I think

[issue7012] Tabs is better than spaces for identation

Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment: Wow. You (rohdef) really do sound like you are a time capsule from the eighties. Tabs would save keystrokes and bandwidth, and are not confusing? The keystrokes argument is wrong for most editors; the bandwidth argument doesn't matter due

[issue7008] str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes

Thomas W. Barr t...@rice.edu added the comment: If correct handling of apostrophe's and quotation marks, keeping the string length unchanged, and only changing desired letters from lower to uppercase with no other side-effects is the criterion we want, then what I suggested (toupper() the first

[issue7008] str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: I'm still researching what other languages do. MS-Excel matches what Python currently does. Django uses the python version and then fixes-up apostrophe errors: title=lambda value: re.sub(([a-z])'([A-Z]), lambda m:

[issue7008] str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes

Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment: Raymond, please refrain from emotional terms like bug factory. I have nothing to say about whether string.capwords() should be removed, but I want to note that it does a split on whitespace and then rejoins using a single space, so that

[issue6790] httplib and array do not play together well

Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Why do you need to give a non-empty body to the FakeSocket? Other than that, looks fine. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6790

[issue6972] zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path

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