On 04/06/2011 03:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:29:52 -0700, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
I often find myself changing, for example, a startwith() to a RE when
I realize that the input can contain mixed case
Why wouldn't you just normalise the case?
Because some of the text may be case-sensitive.
Perhaps you misunderstood me. You don't have to throw away the
unnormalised text, merely use the normalized text in the expression you
need.
Of course, if you include both case-sensitive and insensitive tests in
the same calculation, that's a good candidate for a regex... or at least
it would be if regexes supported that :)
[snip]
Some regex implementations support scoped case sensitivity. :-)
I have at times thought that it would be useful if .startswith offered
the option of case insensitivity and there were also str.equal which
offered it.
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