Uncapitalizing first letter of a name
<p>To code a name like DeAnna you type:</p>

<pre><code>name = "de\aanna" 
</code></pre>

<p>and </p>

<pre><code>print(name.title())
</code></pre>

<p>In this code <code>\a</code> capitalizes a normally uncapitalized letter. What do you code to produce a name like <code>"George von Trapp"</code> where I want to uncapitalize a normally capitalized letter?</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>What do you code to produce a name like <code>"George von Trapp"</code> where I
  want to uncapitalize a normally capitalized letter?</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Letters are not auto-capitalized in Python. In your case, <code>"de\aanna"</code>(I think you should use <code>"de anna"</code> instead) is capitalised because you called <code>title()</code> on it. If I didn't misunderstand your question, what you want is simply to disable such "auto-capitalizing".</p>

<p>Just don't call <code>title()</code>:</p>

<pre><code>name = "George von Trapp"
print(name.lower())
</code></pre>

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