Doctest failing

[Tigerstyle]

On 10 Sep, 13:43, Mel <mwil... at the-wire.com> wrote:
> Tigerstyle wrote:
> > Hi guys.
>
> > I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
> > out here.
>
> > This is the code:
>
> > small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
>
> > def book_title(title):
> >     """ Takes a string and returns a title-case string.
> >     All words EXCEPT for small words are made title case
> >     unless the string starts with a preposition, in which
> >     case the word is correctly capitalized.
> >     >>> book_title('DIVE Into python')
> >     'Dive into Python'
> >     >>> book_title('the great gatsby')
> >     'The Great Gatsby'
> >     >>> book_title('the WORKS OF AleXANDer dumas')
> >     'The Works of Alexander Dumas'
> >     """
> >     new_title = []
> >     title_split = title.strip().lower().split()
> >     for word in title_split:
> >         if title_split[0] in small_words:
> >             new_title.append(word.title())
> >         elif word in small_words:
> >             new_title.append(word.lower())
> >         else:
> >             new_title.append(word.title())
> >     return(' '.join(new_title))
>
> > def _test():
> >     import doctest, refactory
> >     return doctest.testmod(refactory)
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> >     _test()
>
> > All tests are failing even though I am getting the correct output on
> > the first two tests. And the last test still gives me "Of" instead of
> > "of"
>
> > Any help is appreciated.
>
> I don't know about doctest -- I suspect it wants a structured docstring to
> specify the tests -- but this
>
>         if title_split[0] in small_words:
>             new_title.append(word.title())
>
> can't be what you want.
>
>         Mel.

Agreed. Not what I need.