.title() - annoying mistake
Albert-Jan Roskam
sjeik_appie at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 21 08:19:00 EDT 2021
On 20 Mar 2021 23:47, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
On 20Mar2021 12:53, Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola at web.de> wrote:
>Am 20.03.2021 um 09:34 schrieb Alan Bawden:
>>The real reason Python strings support a .title() method is surely
>>because Unicode supports upper, lower, _and_ title case letters, and
>>tells you how to map between them. [...]
>>
>But that's exactly what he's doing, with a result which is documented,
>but not really satisfactory.
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This would be a good
start: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization/title-case
It could be locale-dependent. What I also don't like about .title() is
that it messes up abbreviations ("Oecd")
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