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Case-insensitive string equality

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Fri Sep 1 09:20:34 EDT 2017 
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:15 pm, Rhodri James wrote:

> I'd quibble about the name and the implementation (length is not
> preserved under casefolding), 

Yes, I'd forgotten about that.

> but I'd go for this.  The number of times 
> I've written something like this in different languages...


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> The only way I can think of to get much traction with this is to have a
> separate case-insensitive string class.  That feels a bit heavyweight,
> though.

You might be right about that.



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Steve
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