"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > I was just surprised by something I've never observed before from > string.capitalize(). There is clearly either a bug (really two) in > the code or in the documentation. > > >>> '__Myfoo'.capitalize() > '__myfoo' > > Huh? The documentation says: > > capitalize () > Return a copy of the string with only its first character capitalized. > > So it's only doing one of the three things it's promising! For one > thing, it's modifying something other than the first character, and > for another, it's actually swapping the case of the character it /is/ > changing. At least it returns a copy. :) > > Given the documentation, I would have expected the return value to be > the same as the original string, i.e. unchanged. Huh ? The "documentation" says that you will get a copy in which only the first character is capitalized (and all others are converted to lower-case). > So which is it? Does the description of the method need to be made > more complicated, or does the code need to be simplified <wink>? I'd say this is a documentation bug (and I'm authorized since I wrote that snippet called "documentation" ;-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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