Lowercaseit

S23/austin-carnahan/to_lower.py

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+# 1. Create a function that takes an input string and a language as arguments
+# 2. Use conditionals to create special logic based on language
+# 3. Use string manipulation to implement special lowercasing rules
+# 4. Default to standard python lowercasing function
+
+
+def lowercase_me(word, language):
+
+    if language.startswith("ga"):
+
+        # this character returns none when passed to the lower() method.
+        # I'm using a placeholder and then swapping back
+        if "Õ" in word or chr(771) in word:
+            return word.replace("Õ", "!@#!@#!@#").lower().replace("!@#!@#!@#", "õ")
+
+        if (word.startswith("n") or word.startswith("t")) and (word[1] in ['A','E','I','O','U','Á','É','Í','Ó','Ú']) :
+            return (word[:1] + "-" + word[1:]).lower()         
+
+        return word.lower()
+
+    elif language == "tr":
+
+        if "I" in word:
+            return word.lower().replace("i", "ı")
+
+    elif language in ["el", "zh-hans", "th"]:
+        return word.lower()
+
+    else:
+        return word.lower()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    file = open("tests.tsv")
+
+    for count, value in enumerate(file):
+        codex = value.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
+
+        result = lowercase_me(codex[0], codex[1])
+
+        if result != codex[2]:
+            print('TEST FAILURE at line' + str(count) + '. Expected ' + codex[2] + '. Found ' + result + ' for language ' + codex[1])
+        else:
+            print('Test Passed for line ' + str(count))
+
+    file.close()