aiwarrior wrote: > On Mar 13, 9:31 pm, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:04 +0000, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote: >>> What's the neatest way to do the following in case insensitive fashion:- >>> if stringA in stringB: >>> bla bla bla >>> I know I can just do:- >>> if stringA.lower() in stringB.lower(): >>> bla bla bla >>> But I was wondering if there's a neater/easier way? >> How is "if stringA.lower() in stringB.lower():" complex/messy? > > I do agree with you but what if your really insist and perhaps > subclass the str and override the __contains__(x) method? > But then objects have to be explicitly created as subclasses of str.
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