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Re:Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion by anentropic on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:14AM (#43554919)
Looks brilliant!

My only suggestion is here:

> It also ignores any leading, trailing, or duplicate delimiters:

    from textcase import case, convert

    print(convert("IOStream", case.SNAKE))             # io_stream
    print(convert("myJSONParser", case.SNAKE))         # my_json_parser
    print(convert("__weird--var _name-", case.SNAKE))  # weird_var_name
In the case of a conversion target that has delimiters (snake, kebab) it might be nice to have an alternative option to preserve such features but normalise them to the target delimiter

i.e.

    print(convert("__weird--var _name-", case.SNAKE, preserve=True))  # __weird__var__name
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Re:Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion by zobweyt on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:25AM (#43554966)
Thank you for your suggestion! Adding a preserve option to maintain leading, trailing, and duplicate delimiters while normalizing them to the target delimiter is a great idea. I’ll consider implementing this feature. Thanks again!
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