On Apr 5, 7:14 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 7stud wrote:
>
> > Easier? You mean like some kind of mind meld?
>
> That's right, DWIM mode Python. Rock on!
If it is common enough, define a custom type of string. I have
appended a simple version that should work for your example of `in`.
You would probably want to define all of the builtin str methods for
this class to be really useful.
Regards,
Josh
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# cistr.py
import operator
class cistr(object):
"""A type of string that ignores character
case
for the right side of the `in`
operator.
>>> 'AND' in cistr('sPaM aNd
eGgS')
True
"""
def __init__(self, string):
self.string = str(string).lower()
def __contains__(self, other):
return operator.contains(self.string, other.lower())
def __repr__(self):
return 'cistr(%r)'%(self.string)
def lower(self):
return self.string
if '__main__' == __name__:
string1 = 'AND'
string2 = 'sPaM aNd eGgS'
print '%r in %r ? %r' % (string1, string2, string1 in string2)
print '%r in %r ? %r' % (string1, cistr(string2), string1 in
cistr(string2))
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