Uppercase letters in a string. Python 2.7

Question

I have researched the string.upper() command and can't seem to figure out how to print a string where only the first letter is upper cased.

string = 'name'
print string.upper()

print string[0].upper(), string[1:]

Could someone please give me a hint on how to do this?

Thanks. What if I wanted to capitalize just the m in 'name'? print string.capitalize(2)? I'm a little confused on what goes in the () — user3264459, Feb 03 '14 at 04:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '14 at 04:18

str.capitalize does exactly what you need.

capitalize(...)
    S.capitalize() -> string

    Return a copy of the string S with only its first character
    capitalized.

Related is

title(...)
    S.title() -> string

    Return a titlecased version of S, i.e. words start with uppercase
    characters, all remaining cased characters have lowercase.

Note that capitalize makes all the following letters lowercase. ie equivalent to
string[0].upper() + string[1:].lower().
So if you need to preserve the case of those, you'll need to stick to your original solution

>>> "fOO".capitalize()
'Foo'

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '14 at 04:14

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There is a string method capitalize for this purpose.

>>> string = "hello world"
>>> string.capitalize()
'Hello world'

answered Feb 03 '14 at 04:14

Sunny Nanda

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Duplicate of the accepted answer.... And also not as elaborated as @JohnLaRooy's answer. – dapc Sep 23 '19 at 10:07

Uppercase letters in a string. Python 2.7

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