StringBender

Sub-class of Python str that adds case conversion functions. They are especially useful for transforming data model field names, ex: REST (camelCase) to Python (snake_case).

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Functions
• The String Class
  
  

Installation

From the command line:

pip install stringbender

or if you're using poetry:

poetry add stringbender

Functions

StringBender provides the following static functions for converting the case of a specified string:

• stringbender.camel
• stringbender.kebob
• stringbender.pascal
• stringbender.snake

These helper methods call a corresponding method in the stringbender.String class and converts the output to str.

Usage:

from stringbender import camel, kebob, pascal, snake, String

# ================================================================================
# EXAMPLES                           # OUTPUT

s = "Hasta la vista baby"
print(camel(s))                      # hastaLaVistaBaby
print(kebob(s)                       # hasta-la-vista-baby
print(pascal(s))                     # HastaLaVistaBaby
print(snake(s))                      # hasta_la_vista_baby

# ================================================================================
# Using a StringBender method with a built-in function

# Create an instance of stringbender.String:
s = String("vote*for*pedro")

# Check the default output:
print(s.camel())                     # vote*For*Pedro (hmm... this isn't right)

# Pass in a custom delimiter:
print(s.replace("*", " ").camel())   # voteForPedro (Much better!)

# ================================================================================
# Using a list of delimiters
s = snake("Careful man, there's a beverage here!", delimiters=[",", "'", "!"])
print(snake(s))                      # careful_man_there_s_a_beverage_here

The String Class

stringbender.String

Methods
Optional argument definitions below

camel() (String) :

Combines all words and he first letter of the first word is lower case, while the first letter of every subsequent word is uppercase.

kebob() (String)

Creates a hyphen delimited lower-case string.

pascal() (String)

Combines all words, and capitalizes the first letter of each word.

snake() (String)

Creates an underscore delimited lower-case string.

as_str() (str)

Returns the value as a str. This is the same as str(String(...))

Constants

DEFAULT_DELIMITERS: List[str] = [" ", ".", "-", "_", ":", "\\"]

Optional Method Arguments

delimiters: List[str] = DEFAULT_DELIMITERS
Used to split the string into words.

split_on_first_upper: bool
Splits on the first occurence of a capital letter following a lowercase letter.

title_case: bool
For character-delimited strings (kebob, snake), This will capitalize the first letter of each word.