On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Rance Hall <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to do some case manipulation that I don't see in the documented > string functions. > > I want to make sure that user input meets a certain capitalization > scheme, for example, if user input is a name, then the first letter of > each word in the name is upper case, and the rest are lower. > > I know how to force the upper and lower cases with string.lower() and friends. > > and I could even do a string.split() on the spaces in the names to > break the name into pieces. > > I don't see an obvious way to do this. > > what I've come up with so far is to do something like this. > > break the name into pieces > force each piece to be lower case > replace the first letter in each word with a uppercase version of > whats there already. > > Problems with this approach as I see them: > The built in split function will create undesirable results for names > that contain suffixes like Jr. etc. > I'm not entirely sure how to replace the string with an uppercase > first letter on a per word basis. > > Whats the "right" way to do something like this? >
I'd say split the string, call the capitalize method on each part, then join back together. Hugo _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
