Thank you for the clarification! I appreciate your input. I've updated the wording to "feature-rich" to better convey the intended meaning. Your feedback is valuable!
I understand your perspective, and it's a valid concern. However, this library is designed to support not only simple use cases but also more advanced scenarios, providing a comprehensive solution for various needs. Additionally, it has zero dependencies, which helps keep your project lightweight. This way, you can benefit from the library's features without adding unnecessary complexity to your dependency tree. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Nah it's not you or your library, there is definitely a place for such utilities. The issue is broader, related to everyone installing libs for two liners and having bajillion dependencies.
Thank you for your suggestion! Adding a preserve option to maintain leading, trailing, and duplicate delimiters while normalizing them to the target delimiter is a great idea. I’ll consider implementing this feature. Thanks again!
I appreciate your perspective! It's interesting to consider how the built-in libraries of a language can influence its ecosystem. Python does have a rich standard library that often reduces the need for external dependencies. In contrast, JavaScript's ecosystem has evolved around web development, where modularity and flexibility are prioritized, leading to a proliferation of packages.
That's a great observation! Instead of seeing it as a limitation, it can be treated as a feature. Users can handle Unicode normalization using Python's built-in unicodedata module to ensure proper case conversion. Thanks for pointing that out!
It does not support non-English title casing. From the documentation:
> It also works non-ascii characters. However, no inferences on the language itself is made. For instance, the digraph ij in Dutch will not be capitalized, because it is represented as two distinct Unicode characters. However, æ would be capitalized
I was talking about the specific rules that are in place for title capitalization. As you can see in my example the uppercase letters seem randomly placed for a title, but they are indeed correct. For German too there are issues where capitalization has a meaning on the word itself. That kind of things.
It looks like your library does not support it, which is understandable, it is a huge problem to tackle, but I just wanted to be sure.
Thank you for the clarification! I understand that title capitalization can be quite complex, especially with specific rules in languages like German where capitalization can change the meaning of a word.
I guess handling these nuances falls under the broader categories of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).
Just to be excessively clear and maybe borderline annoying, this is not a simple nuance. In German the meaning of a word can actually change depending on its capitalization. Even in English, lowercasing the I is very weird.
Perhaps document that clearly—it's an important restriction that the library assumes English-language strings. ("no inferences on the language itself is made" isn't quite true since the language is inferred to be English, or to at least follow English-compatible rules for casing)
Thanks for your feedback! You're right; I should clarify that the library assumes English-language strings for casing. I'll update the documentation to make this limitation clear. I appreciate you pointing it out!
I appreciate your suggestion regarding the name, but unfortunately this name was already taken, so "textcase" was chosen.
I also have ideas for adding dictionary key conversion and other features in the future that will handle more than just strings. In addition, you can use this library to convert cases of Iterable[str] using textcase.pattern
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you appreciate the effort put into covering all those edge cases.
It sounds like you had quite the adventure with text casing on your project. I'm happy this library can save you some time and hassle. Looking forward to see what can be built with it!
