help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/22/2012 10:46 AM, Rebelo wrote:

>> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
>> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word.

Unicode has two 'capital' concepts: 'uppercase' and 'titlecase'. They 
are the same for latin chars but not for all alphabets.

>> I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

No. It may or may not be easier.

> change:
>   words[i] = word.capitalize()
>
> into:
> if word != word.upper() :
>       words[i] = word.capitalize()

Still buggy
 >>> s = 'CamelCase'
 >>> if s != s.upper(): s = s.capitalize()

 >>> s
'Camelcase'

use "if not word[0].isupper:..."
or "if word[0].islower

This will still .capitalize() 'weirdWord' to 'Weirdword'.
If you do not want that, only change the first letter.

 >>> s = 'weirdWord'
 >>> if s[0].islower(): s = s[0].upper()+s[1:]

 >>> s
'WeirdWord'

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy