syntactic.dotted_case

syntactic.dotted_case(obj: str | list[str], smart: bool = True, prefix: bool = True) → list[str]

Convert strings to dotted.case.

Parameters:

• obj (str or list of str) – String(s) to convert.

• smart (bool) – Handle complicated special cases, such as mixed case acronyms, plus/minus, and percentages.

• prefix (bool) – Prepend an “x” character if the string begins with a syntactically invalid character, such as a number.

Returns:

Strings converted to dotted.case.

Return type:

list of str

Examples

>>> dotted_case(["human genomeVersion", "sampleID"])
['human.genome.version', 'sample.id']