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This is because title is a commonly-used (if not universal) property of most objects, perhaps?

I would agree with you, IF you used title(). However, I used string.title() [i.e., an explicit call]. Same result. Moreover, the same error occurs in regular python (e.g., not using Zope by only python).

Incidentally, a work-about would be... words = string.split(line) for word in words: tmp_str = tmp_str + string.capitalize(word) + ' ' tmp_str = string.strip(tmp_str) I'm wondering if title() is in a module other than string. Cheers, Ron