Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-08 Thread varikin
> You try making an implementation of the actual English title casing > rules, and let me know how that goes. :P I would prefer not, though that sounds like a challenge:) > > str.title is a very simple title casing function, and there's a > reason for that. I completely understand. I was just

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-07 Thread Ludvig Ericson
On Nov 7, 2008, at 14:46, varikin wrote: > For English (U.S. English at least), it should also not capitalize > articles (a, an, the, etc). I don't know the rules for other > languages, but I have heard they are different. So given this, if > there was an effort to make the title filter better, it

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-07 Thread varikin
On Nov 7, 3:07 am, Ludvig Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 2008, at 15:26, H. de Vries wrote: > > > From a publishing point of view, I don't know for sure Python's method > > is correct. Personally, I don't think so. > > I'd have to say, if Python's misbehaving, Python should be pa

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-07 Thread Ludvig Ericson
On Nov 4, 2008, at 15:26, H. de Vries wrote: > From a publishing point of view, I don't know for sure Python's method > is correct. Personally, I don't think so. I'd have to say, if Python's misbehaving, Python should be patched. And also, I'm strictly against making the title filter not behave

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-05 Thread Adam Nelson
Henk, I think the best solution is to: A) Do a patch that defaults to the existing functionality and allows for customization (i.e. the ability to pass characters that would go into the regex). And B) Start a ticket and thread to change the title method for Python on the Python developer's grou

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-05 Thread Michael
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Hanne Moa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 15:26, H. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I searched around and it seems that a lot of people aren't too > > happy with Python's default title() functionality. ( > > > http://muffinresear

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-05 Thread Hanne Moa
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 15:26, H. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I searched around and it seems that a lot of people aren't too > happy with Python's default title() functionality. ( > http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/05/27/titlecasepy-titlecase-in-python/ > ) > > From a publi

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-04 Thread H. de Vries
Hey Karen, Thanks for your fast reply. Well, I searched around and it seems that a lot of people aren't too happy with Python's default title() functionality. ( http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/05/27/titlecasepy-titlecase-in-python/ ) >From a publishing point of view, I don't know for

Re: Ticket 9483

2008-11-04 Thread Karen Tracey
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:08 AM, H. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I pretty new to developing for Django itself and for that reason I > have question. > > 4 days ago I submitted a bug and I wrote a patch and tests for it. I > noticed through the timeline that there are people