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4.1.3 String functions

The following functions are available to operate on string and Unicode objects. They are not available as string methods.

capwords(

s)

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, and removes leading and trailing whitespace.

maketrans(

from, to)

Return a translation table suitable for passing to translate() or regex.compile(), that will map each character in from into the character at the same position in to; from and to must have the same length.

Warning: Don't use strings derived from lowercase and uppercase as arguments; in some locales, these don't have the same length. For case conversions, always use lower() and upper().

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Release 2.4c1, documentation updated on 18 November 2004.