Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion

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twalkz

I am really impressed by how thoroughly this library thinks through all the applications and edge cases of text casing.

On a recent project I spent about an hour trying to do something similar (and far less sophisticated) before I realized it was a problem I had no desire in really solving, so I backed out all my changes and just went with string.capitalize(), even though it didn’t really do what I was looking for. Looking forward to using this instead!

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lnenad

I might be jaded, but I think having libraries for such simple use cases leads to the inevitable `left-pad` situation.

When I say simple use cases I mean that since you probably don't need all of these functions at once that it would be easier to copy the code you need if you don't feel comfortable writing it instead of adding yetanotherlibrary to your dependency tree.

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re

> A feature complete Python text case conversion library

I suspect you mean "featureful", "full-featured" or similar[1]—"feature complete" means that you're not going to add any more features.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/393517/what-do-y...

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frizlab

Great library!

Does it support non-English title casing?

For instance in French, title casing for “les maisons bleues” is “Les Maisons bleues” while for “des maisons bleues” it’s “Des maisons bleues”.

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anentropic

Looks brilliant!

My only suggestion is here:

> It also ignores any leading, trailing, or duplicate delimiters:

    from textcase import case, convert

    print(convert("IOStream", case.SNAKE))             # io_stream
    print(convert("myJSONParser", case.SNAKE))         # my_json_parser
    print(convert("__weird--var _name-", case.SNAKE))  # weird_var_name
In the case of a conversion target that has delimiters (snake, kebab) it might be nice to have an alternative option to preserve such features but normalise them to the target delimiter

i.e.

    print(convert("__weird--var _name-", case.SNAKE, preserve=True))  # __weird__var__name
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wodenokoto

This should be implemented in editors.

It also looks to be nice in exploratory data analysis:

    df = pd.read_csv(f)
    df.columns = map(convert, df.columns, case.snake)
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kianN

My favorite part of this library is that it seems to have zero dependencies!

Python packages seem to often rope in a surprising number of dependencies for relatively limited libraries.

I can easily imagine pulling this package into my work: thank you for keeping the requirements to a minimum!

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marban

Bonus: https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify

cadamsdotcom

HAppY ApRiL FoOLs!

If only this comment supported case conversion..

In any case congrats on shipping!

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fake-name

> A feature complete Python text case conversion library

Considering it supports unicode input, I somehow doubt that. Given that there's no mention of unicode normalization it'll likely break some strings.

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kseistrup

Now available from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-textcase-git

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