Camelcase string
Python, String, Regexp · Nov 2, 2020

Converts a string to camelcase.
- Use
re.sub()
to replace any-
or_
with a space, using the regexpr"(_|-)+"
. - Use
str.title()
to capitalize the first letter of each word and convert the rest to lowercase. - Finally, use
str.replace()
to remove spaces between words.
from re import sub def camel(s): s = sub(r"(_|-)+", " ", s).title().replace(" ", "") return ''.join([s[0].lower(), s[1:]]) camel('some_database_field_name') # 'someDatabaseFieldName' camel('Some label that needs to be camelized') # 'someLabelThatNeedsToBeCamelized' camel('some-javascript-property') # 'someJavascriptProperty' camel('some-mixed_string with spaces_underscores-and-hyphens') # 'someMixedStringWithSpacesUnderscoresAndHyphens'