new: added ucfirst and shorten.

README.rst

@@ -112,6 +112,28 @@ Wrap paragraph separately::
     Notice that that each paragraph has been wrapped separately.
 
 
+ucfirst
+-------
+
+This function will return the given string with the first character forced to
+uppercase::
+
+    >>> txt.ucfirst('foo')
+    'Foo'
+
+
+shorten
+-------
+
+This function will truncate the given string to the given length, if necessary. It'll
+replace the last 2 characters by a '..' to indicate truncation::
+
+    >>> txt.shorten('fool', l=5)
+    'fool'
+    >>> txt.shorten('supercalifragilisticexpialidocious', l=5)
+    'sup..'
+
+
 Contributing
 ============
 

src/kids/txt/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Package placeholder
 
-from .txt import indent, dedent, paragraph_wrap
+from .txt import indent, dedent, paragraph_wrap, ucfirst, shorten

src/kids/txt/txt.py

@@ -88,3 +88,19 @@ def paragraph_wrap(text, regexp="\n\n"):
     regexp = re.compile(regexp, re.MULTILINE)
     return "\n".join("\n".join(textwrap.wrap(paragraph.strip()))
                      for paragraph in regexp.split(text)).strip()
+
+
+def ucfirst(msg):
+    """Return altered msg where only first letter was forced to uppercase."""
+    return msg[0].upper() + msg[1:]
+
+
+## Provided in textwrap.shorten in python 3
+def shorten(s, l):
+    """Return given string truncated to given length."""
+    if len(s) > l:
+        return s[:l - 2] + ".."
+    return s
+
+
+truncate = shorten