case insensitive list ?

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 13:23:10 EDT 2010


On 2010-04-05 12:17 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
>
> AFAIK there's no case insensitive list in Python.
> By case insentive I mean that that sort and memebr of is case insensitive.
>
> Does soeone has a implementation of sucha case insensitive list ?

mylist.sort(key=lambda x: x.lower())
any(x.lower() == lowercase_query for x in mylist)

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