[Python-Dev] surprising bug in s.capitalize()?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> "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",

The string methods were built closely after the string module
functions, so that's what the reference is...

> 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...

Depends... we'll still need some sort of compatibility with
string.py.

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