Converting Snake Case to Lower Camel Case (lowerCamelCase)

Question

What would be a good way to convert from snake case (my_string) to lower camel case (myString) in Python 2.7?

The obvious solution is to split by underscore, capitalize each word except the first one and join back together.

However, I'm curious as to other, more idiomatic solutions or a way to use RegExp to achieve this (with some case modifier?)

Answer 1

def to_camel_case(snake_str):
    components = snake_str.split('_')
    # We capitalize the first letter of each component except the first one
    # with the 'title' method and join them together.
    return components[0] + ''.join(x.title() for x in components[1:])

Example:

In [11]: to_camel_case('snake_case')
Out[11]: 'snakeCase'

Answer 2

Here's yet another take, which works only in Python 3.5 and higher:

def camel(snake_str):
    first, *others = snake_str.split('_')
    return ''.join([first.lower(), *map(str.title, others)])

Answer 3

A little late to this, but I found this on /r/python a couple days ago:

pip install pyhumps

and then you can just do:

import humps

humps.camelize('jack_in_the_box')  # jackInTheBox
# or
humps.decamelize('rubyTuesdays')  # ruby_tuesdays
# or
humps.pascalize('red_robin')  # RedRobin

Answer 4

Obligatory one-liner:

import string

def to_camel_case(s):
    return s[0].lower() + string.capwords(s, sep='_').replace('_', '')[1:] if s else s

Answer 5

another one liner

def to_camel_case(snake_string):
    return snake_string.title().replace("_", "")

Answer 6

>>> snake_case = "this_is_a_snake_case_string"
>>> l = snake_case.split("_")
>>> print l[0] + "".join(map(str.capitalize, l[1:]))
'thisIsASnakeCaseString'

Answer 7

for one-line fans..

''.join((wd.title() if i else wd) for (i,wd) in enumerate(string.split('_')))

Answer 8

Building on Steve's answer, this version should work:

def to_camel_case(snake_case_string):
    titleCaseVersion =  snake_case_string.title().replace("_", "")
    camelCaseVersion = titleCaseVersion[0].lower() + titleCaseVersion[1:]
    return camelCaseVersion

Answer 9

def toCamel(snake)
    return ''.join( word.capitalize()
                    for word in snake.split('_') )

Allow underscore to be escaped by a preceding underscore (e.g. 'Escaped__snake' would become 'Escaped_Snake', while 'usual_snake' becomes 'UsualSnake'. Include ternary test for blank.

def toCamel(escaped_snake)
    return ''.join( (word.capitalize(), '_')[word=='')
                    for word in escaped_snake.split('_') )

Don't capitalize the 1st segment (i.e, 'tHERE_is_a_snake' becomes 'thereIsASnake')

def toCamel(esCAPed_snake)
    words = esCAPed_snake.split('_')
    return words[0].lower() + ''.join( (word.capitalize(), '_')[word=='')
                                       for word in words[1:] )

Answer 10

Here is a solution using regular expressions:

import re

def snake_to_camel(text):
    return re.sub('_([a-zA-Z0-9])', lambda m: m.group(1).upper(), text)

Answer 11

You can use pydash if you are familiar with lodash.

pip install pydash first.

import pydash  # pip install pydash

assert pydash.snake_case("WriteLine") == "write_line"
assert pydash.snake_case("writeLine") == "write_line"
assert pydash.camel_case("write_line") == "writeLine"
assert pydash.upper_first(pydash.camel_case("write_line")) == "WriteLine"

https://github.com/dgilland/pydash

https://pydash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://pypi.org/project/pydash/

Answer 12

def to_camel_case(snake_str):
    components = snake_str.split('_')
    return reduce(lambda x, y: x + y.title(), components[1:], components[0])

Answer 13

Without using list comprehensions:

def snake_to_camel_case(text_snake):
    return '{}{}'.format(
        text_snake[:1].lower(),
        text_snake.title().replace('_', '')[1:],
    )

Answer 14

So I needed to convert a whole file with bunch of snake case parameters into camel case. The solution by Mathieu Rodic worked best. Thanks.

Here is a little script to use it on files.

import re

f = open("in.txt", "r")
words = f.read()

def to_camel_case3(s):
    return re.sub(r'_([a-z])', lambda x: x.group(1).upper(), s)

f = open("out.txt", "w")
f.write(to_camel_case3(words))

Answer 15

it this too simple?

snake_case is already lowercase. my_string

So if we title the string and remove the underscores MyString

then replace the first character M with the original m we're done.

scase = "my_string"
ccase = scase[0] + scase.title().replace('_', '')[1:]

output: myString

Answer 16

I personally use this solution since it is a rolling transformation:

from functools import reduce

def camelize(snake_string: str) -> str:
    return reduce(lambda x, y: x + y.capitalize(), snake_string.split('_'))