[Tutor] string case manipulation in python 3.x

[Hugo Arts]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to do some case manipulation that I don't see in the documented
> string functions.
>
> I want to make sure that user input meets a certain capitalization
> scheme, for example, if user input is a name, then the first letter of
> each word in the name is upper case, and the rest are lower.
>
> I know how to force the upper and lower cases with string.lower() and friends.
>
> and I could even do a string.split() on the spaces in the names to
> break the name into pieces.
>
> I don't see an obvious way to do this.
>
> what I've come up with so far is to do something like this.
>
> break the name into pieces
> force each piece to be lower case
> replace the first letter in each word with a uppercase version of
> whats there already.
>
> Problems with this approach as I see them:
> The built in split function will create undesirable results for names
> that contain suffixes like Jr.  etc.
> I'm not entirely sure how to replace the string with an uppercase
> first letter on a per word basis.
>
> Whats the "right" way to do something like this?
>

I'd say split the string, call the capitalize method on each part,
then join back together.

Hugo