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numpy.core.defchararray.title(a)[source]

Return element-wise title cased version of string or unicode.

Title case words start with uppercase characters, all remaining cased characters are lowercase.

Calls str.title element-wise.

For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent.

Parameters:
a : array_like, {str, unicode}

Input array.

Returns:
out : ndarray

Output array of str or unicode, depending on input type

See also

str.title

Examples

>>> c=np.array(['a1b c','1b ca','b ca1','ca1b'],'S5'); c
array(['a1b c', '1b ca', 'b ca1', 'ca1b'],
    dtype='|S5')
>>> np.char.title(c)
array(['A1B C', '1B Ca', 'B Ca1', 'Ca1B'],
    dtype='|S5')