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author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2009-09-26 11:20:53 (GMT) |
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committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2009-09-26 11:20:53 (GMT) |
commit | 9aac2455ab9b47033b8b0807e28a3d8b4a9d9d37 (patch) | |
tree | 44ea056442ffde8359132c38fd1243ada17acf49 /Lib/string.py | |
parent | afdbe3d661c8abbbcb8737a85d1289ae135579e4 (diff) | |
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#7000: document "sep" in capwords. Add a few tests
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index e4d9e4f..6faa1f0 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -43,15 +43,17 @@ del l # Capitalize the words in a string, e.g. " aBc dEf " -> "Abc Def". def capwords(s, sep=None): - """capwords(s, [sep]) -> string + """capwords(s [,sep]) -> string Split the argument into words using split, capitalize each word using capitalize, and join the capitalized words using - join. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by - a single space. + join. If the optional second argument sep is absent or None, + runs of whitespace characters are replaced by a single space + and leading and trailing whitespace are removed, otherwise + sep is used to split and join the words. """ - return (sep or ' ').join([x.capitalize() for x in s.split(sep)]) + return (sep or ' ').join(x.capitalize() for x in s.split(sep)) # Construct a translation string |