Case-insensitive string compare?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Maric Michaud wrote:

 > You''ll often see for loops written like this :
> 
> for i in (e for e in iterable if predicate(e)) :
>     ...

luckily, I don't.  most people, when faced with that problem, writes it 
in the obvious way:

    for i in iterable:
        if predicate(i):
            ...

to avoid an extra iterator and save typing.

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