Text conversion to lowercase is not working

[ineuw]

I am trying to change text which contain these capitalized words surrounded by space. But this Autokey script is not working. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?

text_.replace(" A "," a ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" An "," an ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" And "," and ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" As "," as ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" At "," at ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" De "," de ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" Du "," du ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" For "," for ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" In "," in ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" Is "," is ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" It "," it ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" Not "," not ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" Of "," of ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" On "," on ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" The ", " the ")
time.sleep(0.1)
text_.replace(" To "," to ")
time.sleep(0.1)

Yoriz write Jan-13-2024, 11:19 AM:
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[Yoriz]

The string method replace returns a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new.

old_text = " A B C D "
new_text = old_text.replace(" A ", " a ")
print(old_text)
print(new_text)

Output:
 A B C D 
 a B C D 

[DeaD_EyE]

The str object has many useful string-methods: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtyp...ng-methods
One of them is title and capitalize.

text = "We always eat dinner together."
print(text.title())

Output:
We Always Eat Dinner Together.

With capitalize:

Output:
We always eat dinner together.

[ineuw]

Much thanks for your replies. It was my lack Python of coding practice that was the error. I corrected the Autokey script pasted below and is working fine.

I must apply Title Case to the text to be displayed as Small Caps in Wikisource/wikipedia, but the connecting words must be reverted to lowercase.

# [ alt + s ] title and small case selected text
# 240115_2129 - *alt-s-title-with-small-caps.py - /home/ineuw/.config/autokey/data/english - Geany

# clear clipboard
clipboard.fill_clipboard('')
time.sleep(0.05)

# small caps wiki template set
open_ = '{{sc|'
close_ = '}}'
copy_ = '<ctrl>+<insert>'
paste_ = '<shift>+<insert>'
time.sleep(0.05)

try:
	keyboard.send_keys(copy_)
	time.sleep(0.05)

	text_ = clipboard.get_clipboard()

except:
	time.sleep(0.05)

else:
	text_ = text_.title()
	time.sleep(0.05)

	text_=text_=text_.replace(" A "," a ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" An "," an ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" And "," and ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" As "," as ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" At "," at ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" De "," de ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" Du "," du ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" For "," for ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" In "," in ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" Is "," is ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" It "," it ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" Not "," not ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" Of "," of ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" On "," on ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" The ", " the ")
	time.sleep(0.05)
	text_=text_.replace(" To "," to ")
	time.sleep(0.05)

	combined_ = open_ + text_ + close_
	time.sleep(0.8)

clipboard.fill_clipboard(combined_)
time.sleep(0.05)

keyboard.send_keys(paste_)