numpy.core.defchararray.capitalize — NumPy v1.11 Manual (original) (raw)

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

Return a copy of a with only the first character of each element capitalized.

Calls str.capitalize element-wise.

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

Parameters: a : array_like of str or unicode Input array of strings to capitalize.
Returns: out : ndarray Output array of str or unicode, depending on input types

Examples

c = np.array(['a1b2','1b2a','b2a1','2a1b'],'S4'); c array(['a1b2', '1b2a', 'b2a1', '2a1b'], dtype='|S4') np.char.capitalize(c) array(['A1b2', '1b2a', 'B2a1', '2a1b'], dtype='|S4')