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Odd_Bloke

08-29-2003 06:28 PM

Case-Sensitivity in Python

How can I make Python recognise a string regardless of the case of it's contents? eg:

blah = [foo]
diddle = raw_input()
if diddle in blah:
happy_dance()

How can I get happy_dance() to run regardless of whether foo, Foo, FOo, FOO etc. is typed?

Cheers,
Dan

nouse66

08-30-2003 03:58 AM

Re: Case-Sensitivity in Python

Quote:

Originally posted by Odd_Bloke
How can I make Python recognise a string regardless of the case of it's contents? eg:

blah = [foo]
diddle = raw_input()
if diddle in blah:
happy_dance()

How can I get happy_dance() to run regardless of whether foo, Foo, FOo, FOO etc. is typed?

Cheers,
Dan

you can do something like this:

diddle = raw_input()
if diddle in ["foo", "Foo", "FOo", "FOO"]:
happy_dance()

Strike

09-02-2003 04:20 PM

Just store all uppercase versions and then compare the upper()'ed version of the entered string to the things in the list.

Code:

>>> def acceptable(s):

...    return s in ["FOO", "BAR", "BAZ", "QUUX"]

...

>>> for s in ["foo", "foO", "Foo", "bAR", "asdf", "QuUx"]:

...    print "%s: %s" % (s, acceptable(s.upper()))

...

foo: True

foO: True

Foo: True

bAR: True

asdf: False

QuUx: True

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