From 82639e1db41ef3e233af53879b26bfc2feb9e7a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]"
 <211797793+exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:54:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [Sync Iteration] python/little-sisters-essay/1

---
 .../little-sisters-essay/1/string_methods.py  | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 solutions/python/little-sisters-essay/1/string_methods.py

diff --git a/solutions/python/little-sisters-essay/1/string_methods.py b/solutions/python/little-sisters-essay/1/string_methods.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1456ef0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/python/little-sisters-essay/1/string_methods.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+"""Functions to help edit essay homework using string manipulation."""
+
+
+def capitalize_title(title: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Convert the first letter of each word in the title to uppercase if needed.
+
+    :param title: str - title string that needs title casing.
+    :return: str - title string in title case (first letters capitalized).
+    """
+
+    return title.title()
+
+
+def check_sentence_ending(sentence: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check the ending of the sentence to verify that a period is present.
+
+    :param sentence: str - a sentence to check.
+    :return: bool - return True if punctuated correctly with period, False otherwise.
+    """
+
+    return True if sentence[-1] in ".!?" else False
+
+
+def clean_up_spacing(sentence: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Verify that there isn't any whitespace at the start and end of the sentence.
+
+    :param sentence: str - a sentence to clean of leading and trailing space characters.
+    :return: str - a sentence that has been cleaned of leading and trailing space characters.
+    """
+
+    return sentence.strip()
+
+
+def replace_word_choice(sentence: str, old_word: str, new_word: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Replace a word in the provided sentence with a new one.
+
+    :param sentence: str - a sentence to replace words in.
+    :param old_word: str - word to replace.
+    :param new_word: str - replacement word.
+    :return: str - input sentence with new words in place of old words.
+    """
+
+    return sentence.replace(old_word, new_word)

From f855534cd5615115e2ac09832527fd30cdb56188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Egor Kostan <igorkostan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:00:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update string_methods.py

---
 little-sisters-essay/string_methods.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/little-sisters-essay/string_methods.py b/little-sisters-essay/string_methods.py
index df6dc79..bb1678a 100644
--- a/little-sisters-essay/string_methods.py
+++ b/little-sisters-essay/string_methods.py
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ def clean_up_spacing(sentence: str) -> str:
     return sentence.strip()
 
 
-def replace_word_choice(sentence: str,
-                        old_word: str,
-                        new_word: str) -> str:
+def replace_word_choice(sentence: str, old_word: str, new_word: str) -> str:
     """
     Replace a word in the provided sentence with a new one.