Case-insensitive string compare?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Maric Michaud wrote:

> I suspect you are coming to conclusions a bit quickly, without taking the pain 
> of understanding the whole discussion.

I'm pretty sure I was the first one to post an answer in this thread, 
and I understand Python design and performance issues very well, thank you.

(but given your talk about "the cost of whitespace" in a response to a 
comment about performance in that other subthread, it's obvious that 
you're just here to provide noise.  plonk plonk.)

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