convert a string such that the first letter is uppercase and everythingelse is lower case [duplicate]

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How to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string (Python)?

Is there an option to convert a string such that the first letter is uppercase and everythingelse is lower case....like below..i know there are upper and lower for converting to uppercase and lowercase....

string.upper() //for uppercase 
string.lower() //for lowercase
 string.lower() //for lowercase

INPUT:-italic,ITALIC

OUTPUT:-Italic

http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html

Answer 1

Just use str.title():

In [73]: a, b = "italic","ITALIC"

In [74]: a.title(), b.title()
Out[74]: ('Italic', 'Italic')

help() on str.title():

S.title() -> string

Return a titlecased version of S, i.e. words start with uppercase
characters, all remaining cased characters have lowercase.

Answer 2

Yeah, just use the capitalize() method.

eg:

x = "hello"
x.capitalize()
print x   #prints Hello

Title will actually capitalize every word as if it were a title. Capitalize will only capitalize the first letter in a string.

Answer 3

A simple way to do it:

my_string = 'italic'
newstr = my_string[0]
newstr = newstr.upper()
my_string = newstr + my_string[1:]

To make them lowercase (except the first letter):

my_string= 'ITALIC'
newstr = my_string[1:]
newstr = newstr.lower()
my_string = my_string[0] + newstr

I don't know if there is a built in to do this, but this should work.