"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
> > Oooh, here's something a bit more serious though:
> >
> > >>> u'aAaAaA'.capitalize()
> > u'AAaAaA'
> >
> > Something obviously Needs To Be Done. My hunch is to change
> > string_capitalize, but that may be just me (and probably Barry).
>
> Ouch. That's a bug.
Yes.
> Here's what the string.py module has to say about this BTW:
I said "string_capitalize", i.e. "stringobject.c:string_capitalize",
i.e I think
>>> 'aAaA'.capitalize()
should result in
'AAaA'
We're not doing too well at understanding each other today, are we?
> Note that .title() is very similar to the way string.capitalize()
> works. unicode.title() also uses the title case information available
> for Unicode characters.
Ah yes. So in the interests of reducing redunancy, .capitalize should
probably do something usefully different...
Cheers,
M.
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