Case-insensitive string compare?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robert Dailey wrote:

> I currently have a dictionary object that I'm doing the following with:
> 
> if lib not in stage_map:
>     # ... do stuff ...
> 
> However, this will perform a case-sensitive comparison between lib and 
> each key in stage_map. Is there a way to make this do a case-insensitive 
> comparison instead?

dictionary lookups use the exact value.  to make a case-insensitive 
lookup, use key.lower() instead of key when creating the dictionary, and 
then do

     if lib.lower() not in state_map:
         ...

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