Case insensitive dictionary?

[Fuzzyman]

elbertlev at hotmail.com (Elbert Lev) wrote in message news:<9418be08.0406250921.71f4eba4 at posting.google.com>...
> Hi!
> 
> Here is the problem:
> 
> I have a dictionary. Keys are strings. How to make dictionary  lookup
> case insensitive?
> 
> In other words:
> If dict = {'First":"Bob", "Last":"Tom"}, dict["first"] should return
> "Bob"
> 
> Maybe dictionary is not the right data type? If so what is?

I'm probably a bit late on this one... but I've written a complete
case-insensitive dictionary (and list..) with all dictionary methods
implemented....

It's called caseless and available at :
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#configobj

I've tested it fairly well as it the base class for my configuration
module ConfigObj.

Regards,

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html