Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> writes:
> "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" <ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> writes: >> A practical example: I have lists that contain strings, but I want >> to compare them in an case-insensitive way... Should I update the >> __eq__ method (for str class) and break almost everything? Can I write >> now a == b? Nop... I need the loop you've just mentioned in all the >> places where the comparison changes just in the operator, not in the >> algorithm... (I would say this is bad coding practice...) > > In Lisp I think you'd use (equal (mapcar upcase a) (mapcar upcase > b)) Or simply (equalp a b), since equalp comparisons happen to compare strings case-insensitively. But that's Common Lisp... overflowing kitchen sink. > or something like that. In Python, a.upper() == b.upper(). I guess you meant map(a, str.upper) == map(b, str.upper)? a and b are lists of strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
