On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:55 PM, 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. > So for instance, something like this? In [3]: badcasename = 'eRic SPAM IDle jr.' In [4]: badcasename.title() Out[4]: 'Eric Spam Idle Jr.' 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. > If you want it to behave differently for suffixes, I'm not sure how to do that... > I'm not entirely sure how to replace the string with an uppercase > first letter on a per word basis. > mystring = mystring.title() > Whats the "right" way to do something like this? gaining more familiarity with the builtin functions ;) HTH, Wayne
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