<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:25 PM, ADRIAN KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellyadrian@hotmail.com">kellyadrian@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<br>Hi all,<br>
is it possible to change a dictionary list to lowercase..without having to retype?<br>
e.g. definitions={"Deprecated": "No longer in use", "Depreciation": "fall in value of an asset"}<br> <br>
i have tried definitions=definitions.lower()<br>
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regards<br><font color="#888888">
adrian<br><br> </font></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div>There is a string method called lower so 'Bob'.lower() will return 'bob'<br><br>You can't alter the keys in a dictionary because they are immutable -- they can't be changed<br>
<br>But you can loop through your dictionary, make new keys lowercase and copy the values associated with each key<br><br>like this:<br><br>>>> new_d = {}<br><br>>>> for d in definitions:<br>... new_d[d.lower()] = definitions[d]<br>
... <br>>>> new_d<br>{'deprecated': 'No longer in use', 'depreciation': 'fall in value of an asset'}<br>>>> <br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joel Goldstick<br><br>