In this tutorial, we will explain how to use Python string capitalize() method with basic syntax by example for better understanding.

How to capitalize string in Python? To capitalize a string in Python, we use the String capitalize() method. The capitalize method in Python capitalizes the first character of the first word of a given String.

Syntax:

<string_value/string_variable>.capitalize()

Input Parameters:

• string_value / String variable : The string that we want to convert to the capitalize it.

Example

msg= 'welcome to python with Oraask'
print('Capital: ',msg.capitalize())

Output of example

Title : Welcome to python with oraask

In the above example, the first word of the string variable ‘msg’ is title cased by msg.capitalize() and the output shows as ‘ Welcome to python with oraask’.

In this tutorial, you have learned the string capitalize() method in Python. And how to Capitalize the first character of the first word for a given string.
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Similar Python Formatting Methods:

• title() : It returns the “title cased” version of string means all the words start with uppercase and the remaining are lowercase.
• center() : It returns a space-padded string with the original string centered to a total of width columns.
• swapcase() : It inverts the case of all the characters in a string.
• lower() : It converts all the characters of a string to lowercase.
• upper() : It converts all the characters of a string to uppercase.
• rstrip() : It removes particular character of a string from right side.
• lstrip() : It removes particular character of a string from left side.
• strip(chars) : It removes particular characters of a string from left and right side.
• ljust() : It returns an original string with a filled specific character or space at the left side of the string value to justify the string’s new length (width).
• rjust() : It returns an original string with a filled specific character or space at the right side of the string value to justify the string’s new length (width).
• zfill() : It returns an original string value with filled zero at the left side of the string value to justify the string’s new length (width).

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