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  r75070 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-26 14:20:53 +0300 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #7000: document "sep" in capwords. Add a few tests
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2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

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
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_string.py b/Lib/test/test_string.py
index 20cff0a..48677e0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_string.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_string.py
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ class ModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(string.capwords('ABC DEF GHI'), 'Abc Def Ghi')
         self.assertEqual(string.capwords('ABC-DEF-GHI', '-'), 'Abc-Def-Ghi')
         self.assertEqual(string.capwords('ABC-def DEF-ghi GHI'), 'Abc-def Def-ghi Ghi')
+        self.assertEqual(string.capwords('   aBc  DeF   '), 'Abc Def')
+        self.assertEqual(string.capwords('\taBc\tDeF\t'), 'Abc Def')
+        self.assertEqual(string.capwords('\taBc\tDeF\t', '\t'), '\tAbc\tDef\t')
 
     def test_formatter(self):
         fmt = string.Formatter()