Change the First Character of List word to Upper Case

[Shaji_1]

I am trying to change the first character of each word in a list to upper case using Python 2.7. I am able to change the entire list to lower case, but I am not getting what I want - i.e the first character of each word to be upper case. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you

with open('c:\FLOUpper.txt', 'r') as infile,open('c:\FLOLower.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    data = infile.readlines()
    data = data.capitalize()
    outfile.write(data)

When I use the above code, its throwing a "list" object has no attributes 'capitalize.'

with open('c:\FLOUpper.txt', 'r') as infile,open('c:\FLOLower.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    data = infile.read()
    data = data.capitalize()
    outfile.write(data)

The above code changes the first character of the entire file to upper and all the rest to lower.

[rrashkin]

Maybe:

with open('c:\FLOUpper.txt', 'r') as infile,open('c:\FLOLower.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    data = infile.readlines()
    data = [i.capitalize() for i in data]
    outfile.write(data)

[BearofNH]

Good suggestion rr, but I think that just capitalizes the first word of each line. Instead of readlines() you want readwords(), except that doesn't exist.

I think judicious use of split() is in order, and remember each line will end with \n so you'll want to be sure to delete that so it's not part of the word.

[vegaseat]

Something like this ...

fname_in = "names_nocaps.txt"

# write a test data file
data = '''\
frank
heidi
karl
'''
with open(fname_in, 'w') as fout:
    for name in data:
        fout.write(name)

fname_out = "names_caps.txt"

# read the file back in and write the modified data back out
with open(fname_in, 'r') as fin, open(fname_out, 'w') as fout:
    for name in fin:
        name = name.capitalize()
        fout.write(name)

''' resulting file "names_caps.txt" shown with an editor ...
Frank
Heidi
Karl

'''

Note: You are not writing or reading a list object. To do so, you need to use the pickle module.

[Gribouillis]

There is also a solution with the re module

import re

def cap(match):
    return match.group(0).capitalize()

with open('c:\FLOUpper.txt', 'r') as infile, open('c:\FLOLower.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    s = infile.read()
    s = re.sub(r'\b[a-zA-Z]\w*', cap, s)
    outfile.write(s)

[harryngh]

I want to see many options like in this website: Case Changer

[sneekula]

Here you go:

s = "happy Hello World!"

print(s)
print(s.capitalize())
print(" ".join(w.capitalize() for w in s.split()))
print(s.lower())
print(s.upper())
print(s.swapcase())

''' my result -->
happy Hello World!
Happy hello world!
Happy Hello World!
happy hello world!
HAPPY HELLO WORLD!
HAPPY hELLO wORLD!
'''

[TrustyTony]

How about

>>> 'tony veijalainen'.title()
'Tony Veijalainen'
>>> 'book of shadows'.title()
'Book Of Shadows'
>>> 

Second one is not actually how it is done, but otherwise it is OK.