How to do Title case in Python

Keeping text in right format is always important. The data coming out of Python eventually helps in presenting the insights. In case the texts are not in proper format, it will require additional cleaning in later stages. Fields can be present as mixed case in the text. The objective is to create proper case column, to achieve this Python has title function. Python string function str.title() helps in creating title case or proper case in Python. In this article we will learn how to do title case in Python with the help of an example.

Emma has customer data available with her for her company. She has full name field available. The field is all lower case. She wants to create proper case field from the same. For example, for “nicol farherty” new full name should look like “Nicol Farherty”

Python Title Case Example

• Step 1: Import all the necessary modules.

import pandas as pd

• Step 2: Use str.title function to convert text to proper case or title case. To use this function, pass the column name along with Dataframe in the beginning which helps to identify column for upcase. Here is the syntax to upcase ‘Full Name’ column.

Customer_Data['Full Name Updated'] = Customer_Data['Full Name'].str.title()

• Step 3: Check the output data quality to assess the observations in final Dataframe.

Customer_Data.head(15)

Thus, Emma is able to create column in Dataframe as per her requirement in Python.

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