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Kirill Smelkov
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Issue 7008: Better document str.title and show how to work around the apostrophe problem.
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@@ -1126,8 +1126,28 @@ functions based on regular expressions.
.. method:: str.title()
Return a titlecased version of the string: words start with uppercase
characters, all remaining cased characters are lowercase.
Return a titlecased version of the string where words start with an uppercase
character and the remaining characters are lowercase.
The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as
groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but
it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word
boundaries, which may not be the desired result::
>>> "they're bill's friends from the UK".title()
"They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk"
A workaround for apostrophes can be constructed using regular expressions::
>>> import re
>>> def titlecase(s):
return re.sub(r"[A-Za-z]+('[A-Za-z]+)?",
lambda mo: mo.group(0)[0].upper() +
mo.group(0)[1:].lower(),
s)
>>> titlecase("they're bill's friends.")
"They're Bill's Friends."
.. method:: str.translate(map)
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