A pythonic way to insert a space before capital letters

Question

I\'ve got a file whose format I\'m altering via a python script. I have several camel cased strings in this file where I just want to insert a single space before the capital l

Answer 1

Maybe you would be interested in one-liner implementation without using regexp:

''.join(' ' + char if char.isupper() else char.strip() for char in text).strip()