Difference between str.capitalize() and str.title()

The primary difference between str.capitalize() and str.title() lies in their scope of capitalization. str.capitalize() only capitalizes the first character of the entire string and str.title() capitalizes the first character of every word in the string. Let's understand both str.capitalize() and str.title() and difference between both in detail:

title() method

title() function in Python is the Python String Method which is used to convert the first character in each word to Uppercase and the remaining characters to Lowercase in the string and returns a new string.

Syntax: str.title()

Returns: This function returns a string which has first letter in each word is uppercase and all remaining letters are lowercase. 

Example:

# Example 1: Simple string
s = "geeksforgeeks"
res = s.title()
print(res)


# Example 2: Mixed case string
s = "GFG"
res = s.title()
print(res)


# Example 3: String with non-alphabetic characters
s = "hello world"
res = s.title()
print(res)

Geeksforgeeks
Gfg
Hello World

capitalize() method

In Python, the capitalize() method converts the first character of the first word of a string to a capital (uppercase) letter.

Syntax: str.capitalize()

Return Type: This function returns a string that has the first letter of the first word in uppercase and all remaining letters of the first word in lowercase. 

Example:

# Example 1: Simple string
s = "hello world"
res = s.capitalize()
print(res)


# Example 2: Mixed case string
s = "PYTHON programming"
res = s.capitalize()
print(res)


# Example 3: String with numbers or symbols
s = "123abc"
res = s.capitalize()
print(res)

Geeks for geeks
GeeksForGeeks

Comparison Between str.capitalize() and str.title()