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Graham Mackenzie
2,747 PointsSmall questions: why key.title() instead of just key? And why no ** example?
Hi!
In the last example, Kenneth Love used key.title() in the .format() call instead of just key, even though (I believe) the latter would work just as well. I'm sure he had a reason for this; just wondering what it is.
Also, found it kind of strange that he prepped us to be able to use a ** when looping over a dictionary's items, but did not use it in any example. What was the reason for this / where can an example of such be found in this course?
Thanks! and Be Well, Graham
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsYou are correct that key could have been used. The value of key, at this point, is a string holding the dictionary key. Since this string is of type str, the method .title() is available. From help(str.title):
title(...) method of builtins.str instance
S.title() -> str
Return a titlecased version of S, i.e. words start with title case
characters, all remaining cased characters have lower case.
Dave Huckle
7,030 PointsHaha, I thought the same.
Graham Mackenzie
2,747 PointsGraham Mackenzie
2,747 PointsThanks for this, Chris. I did not realize that
.title()was a case! I assumed it was just the 'title' of thekey, ha.