create lowercase strings in lists - was: (No subject)

[Mike Meyer]

"Mark Devine" <markdevine at eircom.net> writes:

> Sorry for not putting a subject in the last e-mail. The function lower suited my case exactly. Here however is my main problem:
> Given that my new list is :
> [class-map match-all cmap1', 'match ip any', 'class-map match-any cmap2', 'match any', 'policy-map policy1', 'class cmap1', 'policy-map policy2', 'service-policy policy1', 'class cmap2']
>
> Each element in my new list could appear in any order together within another larger list (list1) and I want to count how many matches occur. For example the larger list could have an element 'class-map cmap2 (match any)' and I want to match that but if only 'class-map match-any' or 'class-map cmap2' appears I don't want it to match. 
>
> Can anybody help?
> Is my problem clearly stated?

Yes. Here's how to use the count method of a list to do it.

[(list1.count(element), element) for element in small]

is one way, but the dictionary method posted by Steve Holden will be
faster.

	<mike
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