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

I agree that the regex solution is the easiest, but I wouldn't say it's the most pythonic.

How about:

text = 'WordWordWord'
new_text = ''

for i, letter in enumerate(text):
    if i and letter.isupper():
        new_text += ' '

    new_text += letter