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r75070 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-26 14:20:53 +0300 (Sat, 26 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#7000: document "sep" in capwords. Add a few tests
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 4599997..5089193 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -29,15 +29,17 @@
# Capitalize the words in a string, e.g. " aBc dEf " -> "Abc Def".
def capwords(s, sep=None):
- """capwords(s, [sep]) -> string
+ """capwords(s [,sep]) -> string
Split the argument into words using split, capitalize each
word using capitalize, and join the capitalized words using
- join. Note that this replaces runs of whitespace characters by
- a single space.
+ join. If the optional second argument sep is absent or None,
+ runs of whitespace characters are replaced by a single space
+ and leading and trailing whitespace are removed, otherwise
+ sep is used to split and join the words.
"""
- return (sep or ' ').join([x.capitalize() for x in s.split(sep)])
+ return (sep or ' ').join(x.capitalize() for x in s.split(sep))
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