On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Robert Dailey wrote: > > I currently have a dictionary object that I'm doing the following with: >> >> if lib not in stage_map: >> # ... do stuff ... >> >> However, this will perform a case-sensitive comparison between lib and >> each key in stage_map. Is there a way to make this do a case-insensitive >> comparison instead? >> > > dictionary lookups use the exact value. to make a case-insensitive lookup, > use key.lower() instead of key when creating the dictionary, and then do > > if lib.lower() not in state_map: > ... So you're saying to ensure that stage_map's keys are initially lower-case to begin with? Well, I can't do this either since the case of the keys is actually valuable later on. It's only for the purposes of this specific comparison operation that the case should be ignored.
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