How to reverse caps lock in a string in python?-CodePudding

I have a string that can either be written with caps lock or not. "With caps lock" means that it is either is like tHIS or like THIS. It is easy enough to detect the second case with "isupper()" function, but I wasn't able to find a way to find the first case reliably. For strings of length 1 I used "islower()" to detect if they should be capitalized, so it shouldn't be a problem

Code I used

import re
inp = input()
trutable = ""
for i in inp:
    if i.isupper():
        trutable  = "1"
    if i.islower():
        trutable  = "0"
pattern = re.compile(r'^01')
answ = re.match(pattern, trutable)
if inp.isupper() or answ != None or (len(inp) == 1 and inp.islower()):
    inp = inp.capitalize()

print(inp)

CodePudding user response：

You can follow this approach:

s = "hdCdjdC"

print("".join([x.upper() if x.islower() else x.lower() for x in s]))

OUTPUT

HDcDJDc

CodePudding user response：

Would you please try:

s = "hELLO wORLD!"
print(s.swapcase())

Output:

Hello World!

CodePudding user response：

For text character replacement python string has the str.maketrans and str.translate methods:

from string import ascii_lowercase as ascii_up, ascii_uppercase as ascii_low

def reverseCase(text):
    m = str.maketrans(ascii_low   ascii_up, ascii_up   ascii_low)
    return text.translate(m)


for w in ("tata", "TATA", "TaTa", "42"):
    print(reverseCase(w))

Output:

TATA
tata
tAtA
42

To detect things

[...] either is like 'tHIS' [...]

you can use:

def isWordStartingLowerAndContinuingUpperCased(word):
    """Check if words starts with lower case and continues upper cased."""
    return word[0].islower() and word[1:].isupper()

for w in ("tHIS", "This", "THIS"):
    print(w, ":", isWordStartingLowerAndContinuingUpperCased(w))

To get

tHIS : True 
This : False
THIS : False

When normalizing text be aware of false positives - there is a huge group of words that belong into all-caps and should not be changed - abbreviations:

NBL, USA, MIB, CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, NASA, DARPA, etc.