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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:44:04 -0600
Subject: Re: change the first letter into uppercase (ask)
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> >>> 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()

These result in a string that is all-caps, not title-case.