John Henry wrote: > 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"
You can try to title-case the list returned with keys() like so: print [x.title() for x in pets.keys()] Not a perfect solution but you get what you want... just an idea :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
