[Python-ideas] PEP 315: do-while

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/26/2013 04:25 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 27 June 2013 00:17, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> In case it's not obvious how ridiculous it is to extrapolate MISRA-C to other languages…
>>
>> I went through the 127 rules in MISRA-C 1998. About 52 of them could be extrapolated to Python. Of those, 20 make some sense; the other 32 would be either ridiculous or disastrous to apply in Python. (In fact, much the same is true even for more closely-related languages like C++ or JavaScript.)
>>
>> If you're curious about the details, see http://stupidpythonideas.blogspot.com/2013/06/misra-c-and-python.html.
>
> "67. rcm: Don't rebind the iterator in a for loop."
>
> That sounds quite sane to me...

def NameCase(*names):
     '''names should already be stripped of whitespace'''
     if not any(names):
         return names
     final = []
     for name in names:
         pieces = name.lower().split()
         result = []
         for i, piece in enumerate(pieces):
             if '-' in piece:
                 piece = ' '.join(piece.replace('-',' ').split())
                 piece = '-'.join(NameCase(piece).split())
             elif alpha_num(piece) in ('i', 'ii', 'iii', 'iv', 'v', 'vi', 'vii', 'viii', 'ix', 'x'):
                 piece = piece.upper()
             elif piece in ('and', 'de', 'del', 'der', 'el', 'la', 'van', 'of'):
                 pass
             elif piece[:2] == 'mc':
                 piece = 'Mc' + piece[2:].title()
             else:
                 possible = mixed_case_names.get(piece, None)
                 if possible is not None:
                     piece = possible
                 else:
                     piece = piece.title()
                     if piece[-2:].startswith("'"):
                         piece = piece[:-1] + piece[-1].lower()
             result.append(piece)
         if result[0] == result[0].lower():
             result[0] = result[0].title()
         if result[-1] == result[-1].lower():
             result[-1] = result[-1].title()
         final.append(' '.join(result))
     return final

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~Ethan~