How to Capitalize the first letter in a string in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to Capitalize the first letter of each word in a string in Python in a very simple and understandable way.

In English, letter capitalization is very important. because it follows to some grammatical rules, proper nouns, titles and headings, sentence structure, professions and formal compositions, while also avoiding misunderstandings. Simply, it is used to convey clarity, structure, and right interpretation in writing skills. So in this tutorial we will learn how the letters are capitalized in the online grammar checks and some others English websites which is used to recognize the capital letters and modifies it. In this tutorial, we are going to use Python since it is easy to learn, write, and easy to understand.

Capitalize the first letter of each word in a string in Python

Now, let’s learn about how to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string in Python with some easy and simple tricks.

There are multiple ways to capitalize the first letter of every word in a string in Python. Using Python’s built-in string class’s title() method is the most popular and effective option. Here’s a detailed look at how to accomplish this, complete with justifications and different methods.

• title() method
• split() and join() method
• string.capwords() method etc,.

Let us have a quick explanation of title() method technique along with a clear and simple example.

1. title() method :

The initial letter of every word in a string is capitalized by using the title() method. It is expected that punctuation or spaces will be used to separate words. The code for this method follows below:

Firstly, create a variable called “Sentence” that holds the entire text, which needs to be capitalized and then create another variable called “capitalized_sentence” that will store the capitalized sentence which is done through title() method.

Sentence = "hi! my name is python, python is a programming language." 
capitalized_sentence = Sentence.title() 
print(capitalized_sentence)

Here, the print() will provides us the required output, that is the capitalized sentence.  Here the output is given below :

OUTPUT :

Hi! My Name Is Python, Python Is A Programming Language.

In the above output, you can see the capitalized letters of each and every word in the given sentence. Hence the required output has been received.