[Python-Dev] surprising bug in s.capitalize()?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

> Oooh, here's something a bit more serious though:
> 
> >>> u'aAaAaA'.capitalize()
> u'AAaAaA'
> 
> Something obviously Needs To Be Done.  My hunch is to change
> string_capitalize, but that may be just me (and probably Barry).

Ouch. That's a bug.

Here's what the string.py module has to say about this BTW:

# Capitalize a string, e.g. "aBc  dEf" -> "Abc  def".
def capitalize(s):
    """capitalize(s) -> string

    Return a copy of the string s with only its first character
    capitalized.

    """
    return s.capitalize()


Note that .title() is very similar to the way string.capitalize()
works. unicode.title() also uses the title case information available
for Unicode characters.

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