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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:27 -0500
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 02/28/2013 05:05 PM, io wrote:
>
>> Just use a tolower() method on both strings when you're comparing them.
>>    Of course, that may not work well with international character sets.
>> Some characters in some languages have no lowercase equivalent, and
>> using toupper() has the same problem in other languages.
>>
>> Also, the approach to case insensitive differs between Python 2.x and
>> 3.x
>
> Thanks for the info !
> What about str().lower()?
>

Actually, it's str.lower(), and that's what I meant.  Must be some other 
language that uses tolower().

-- 
DaveA