stupid newbie question about string and re

[Hans Nowak]

Bertrand Geston wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> after import re and string, I do that:
> >>> re.sub('( (.))',string.upper('\\2'),"I feel really stupid")
> 
> and I received that:
> 'Ifeelreallystupid'
> 
> I want that:
> 'IFeelReallyStupid (or even "IFeelSmart" ... but that is another story :-)
> 
> Where is the mistake please ?

Try:

>>> import string
>>> s = "I feel really stupid"
>>> string.join(map(string.capwords, string.split(s)), "")
'IFeelReallyStupid'

or

>>> string.join(string.split(string.capwords(s)), "")
'IFeelReallyStupid'

No need to use regular expressions for this...

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