Puzzled

[Robert Kern]

Colin J. Williams wrote:
> The snippet of code below gives the result which follows
> 
> for k in ut.keys():
>    name= k.split('_')
>    print '\n1', name
>    if len(name) > 1:
>      name[0]= name[0] + name[1].capitalize()
>      print '2', name
>    name[0]= name[0].capitalize()
>    print '3', name
> 
> 1 ['logical', 'or']
> 2 ['logicalOr', 'or']
> 3 ['Logicalor', 'or']
> 
> I was expecting that 3 would read ['LogicalOr', 'or']

str.capitalize() changes the first character to be uppercase and all 
later characters to be lower case. It does not leave the later 
characters alone.

In [1]: str.capitalize?
Type:           method_descriptor
Base Class:     <type 'method_descriptor'>
String Form:    <method 'capitalize' of 'str' objects>
Namespace:      Python builtin
Docstring:
     S.capitalize() -> string

     Return a copy of the string S with only its first character
     capitalized.

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