I believe the standard dictionary should be amened to allow the use of case insensitive keys - as an option. I found some work done by others to do that at:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/283455 but the problem with that approach is that they lowercase the keys immediately when you create the dictionary and so the true identity of the key is lost. Of course, I can subclass it and save a copy of the "real" key but that's kind of messcy. In other words: If I have: pets=caselessDict() pets["Cat"] = 3 pets["Dog"] = 2 I would like to see: pets["cat"] prints 3 pets["DOG"] prints 2 but print pets.keys() should print: "Cat", "Dog" not: "cat", "dog" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
