Python First Letter of a word Upper CASE

Question

I'm looking for some very clever and fast way of transforming every first character of a word in a string with the upper case.

ac milan > Ac Milan
paris saint germain > Paris Saint Germain

score 59 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '11 at 13:41

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Use the title method of str:

'ac milan'.title()

answered Mar 14 '11 at 13:41

Fred Foo

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Beware that 'lowerCamelCase' will become 'Lowercamelcase' – Vanuan Dec 01 '12 at 20:27
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and 'this2that' will become 'This2That' – Jason May 11 '17 at 00:54

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 13:42

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Is this what you're looking for?

>>> "how now brown cow".title()
'How Now Brown Cow'

answered Mar 14 '11 at 13:42

Ryan Ginstrom

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