str.title() fails with words containing apostrophes

[gvmcmt at gmail.com]

On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 11:25:04 PM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm trying to convert strings to Title Case, but getting ugly results if the
> words contain an apostrophe:
> 
> 
> py> 'hello world'.title()  # okay
> 'Hello World'
> py> "i can't be having with this".title()  # not okay
> "I Can'T Be Having With This"
> 
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions for working around this?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
> enough, things got worse.


import string

txt = "i can't be having with this"
string.capwords(txt)

That gives you "I Can't Be Having With This"

Hope that helps.