change the first letter into uppercase (ask)

[contro opinion]

 the pattern `re.compile(".(?#nyh2p){0,1}")`  , make me confused,
can you explain how it  can match the first letter of every word?


2012/10/20 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:03:46 -0400, Zero Piraeus <schesis at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > :
> >
> > On 20 October 2012 00:09, contro opinion <contropinion at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > how can i use  regular expression  in  python  to change the string
> > > "a test of capitalizing"
> > > into
> > > "A Test Of Capitalizing"?
> >
> > >>> import re
> > >>> pattern = re.compile(".(?#nyh2p){0,1}")
> > >>> result = ""
> > >>> f = str.title
>
>         f = str.capitalize
>
> > >>> for match in re.findall(pattern, "a test of capitalizing"):
> > ...   result = f(result + match)
>
>         result = result + f(match)
>
>         Or closer... Don't both with f and str.capitalize
>
>         result = result + match.capitalize()
>
> > ...
> > >>> print(result)
> > A Test Of Capitalizing
> > >>>
> >
>
>
> >>> "a test of capitalizing".title()
> 'A Test Of Capitalizing'
> >>>
>
>         Not to be confused with
>
> >>> "a test of capitalizing".capitalize()
> 'A test of capitalizing'
> >>>
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