On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 08:52 +1100, Jervis Whitley wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 07:25 +1100, Jervis Whitley wrote: > >> > > >> > if stringA.lower() in stringB.lower(): > >> > bla bla bla > >> > > >> > >> from string import lower > >> > >> if lower(stringA) in lower(stringB): > >> # was this what you were after? > >> > > > > This is analogous to standing behind a perfectly functioning automobile > > and pushing it everywhere you want to go. > > It is an alternative solution. That is all.
I agree that it's an alternative. There are a number of alternatives. However the OP was asking for a "neater/easier" alternative. I argue that introducing an external module/function to do the exact same thing as a built-in type's method doesn't exactly qualify as a "neater/easier" alternative. In fact, unless you are using a *very* old version of python, if you look at the implementation of string.lower(s) it simply returns s.lower(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
