On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 05:51 pm, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 31.08.17 10:10, Steven D'Aprano пише: >> (iii) Not every two line function needs to be in the standard library. >> Just add this to the top of every module: >> >> def equal(s, t): >> return s.casefold() == t.casefold() > > This is my answer. > >> Unsolved problems: >> >> This proposal doesn't help with sets and dicts, list.index and the `in` >> operator either. > > This is the end of the discussion.
Your answer of an equal() function doesn't help with sets and dicts either. So I guess we're stuck with no good standard answer: - the easy two-line function doesn't even come close to solving the problem of case-insensitive string operations; - but we can't have case-insensitive string operations because too many people say "just use this two-line function". -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
