[Tutor] capitalize() but only first letter

[Alfred Milgrom]

The simple way to slice a string is to use the string[start:end] construct.
The start and end parameters are optional (but remember we start at 0), so 
you can have:

s = 'everything But The kitchen siNk'

s[3:7] means slice from 4th to 8th letter (inclusive)
         'ryth'
s[:-1] means everything from the beginning except the last letter
         'everything But The kitchen siN'
s[1:] means everything except the first letter
         'verything But The kitchen siNk'

HTH
Fred Milgrom

At 06:05 PM 5/02/03 -0500, Erik Price wrote:


>Erik Price wrote:
>>I'm writing a Python script that generates a JavaBean getter method and 
>>setter method based on command line parameters (type and property 
>>name).  It works beautiful, except for one thing.  I'm using the 
>>capitalize() method of the Python String type, and although this does 
>>capitalize the first letter of the word, it lowercases all the rest of 
>>the letters.  I need to capitalize just the first letter and leave all 
>>the other letters in the word alone.
>>(1) Where can I read the source of the String type?  I'm using Python 
>>2.2.2 on Cygwin.
>>(2) What would be the best way to extract the first character from a 
>>string variable?
>
>Actually, I posted too soon -- I figured it out.  Strings are lists of 
>characters, apparently.  But what is the elegant way of declaring a slice 
>of s[n] to the end of s, so I can capitalize the first character and 
>prepend it to the rest?
>
>s = "string"
>s = s[0].capitalize() + s[1] (and all the rest of the chars too)
>
>
>Erik
>
>
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