Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> added the comment:
I don't think this should be done.
If case doesn't matter at all, the input can be casefolded before the
replacement:
s.casefold().replace('hippo', 'giraffe').
If it can't be casefolded in advance because the case actually matters, then
it doesn't make sense to mix a case-insensitive search step with a
case-sensitive replacement.
Presumably if case matters at all in the original string, then the new text
would need to match the case of the old text. With the example in the selected
StackOverflow answer, we get undesirable output for most of the case variants:
strings = [
'I WANT A HIPPO FOR MY BIRTHDAY!', # lowercase giraffe doesn't fit
'I want a hippo for my birthday.', # only makes sense when the case
matches
'I Want A Hippo for My Birthday', # lowercase giraffe doesn't fit
'I want a hIPpo for my birthday', # desired outcome unknown
]
for s in strings:
print(s.replace('hippo', 'giraffe', case_insensitive=True)
ISTM that every answer in the StackOverflow entry has only a toy examples and
wouldn't make sense for real text where case is retained everywhere except for
the substitutions.
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nosy: +rhettinger
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