Python Text Processing - Capitalize and Translate

Capitalization strings is a regular need in any text processing system. Python achieves it by using the built-in functions in the standard library. In the below example we use the two string functions, capwords() and upper() to achieve this. While 'capwords' capitalizes the first letter of each word, 'upper' capitalizes the entire string.

Example - Capitalization of Strings

main.py

import string

text = 'Tutorialspoint - simple easy learning.'

print(string.capwords(text))
print(text.upper())

Output

When we run the above program we get the following output

Tutorialspoint - Simple Easy Learning.
TUTORIALSPOINT - SIMPLE EASY LEARNING.

Example - Translation of Strings

Translation in python essentially means substituting specific letters with another letter. It can work for encryption decryption of strings.

main.py

text = 'Tutorialspoint - simple easy learning.'

transtable = str.maketrans('tpol', 'wxyz')
print(text.translate(transtable))

Output

When we run the above program we get the following output

Tuwyriazsxyinw - simxze easy zearning.