Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:40:10 -0300, Steven Bethard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Stef Mientki wrote: >>> Evan Klitzke wrote: >>>> On 6/19/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I need to search a piece of text and make all words that are equal >>>>> (except their case) also equal in their case, based on the first >>>>> occurrence. > >> ... def __setitem__(self, key, value): >> ... self._dict[key.lower()] = value >> ... if key not in self._original_keys: >> ... self._original_keys[key.lower()] = key >> ... >> >> Note that because I store the first form encountered for every key, I >> can always use the lower-case version to retrieve the "original string". > > As written, it stores the last used spelling; a small change is > required to get the intended behavior: > >> ... def __setitem__(self, key, value): >> ... self._dict[key.lower()] = value >> ... if key.lower() not in self._original_keys: >> ... self._original_keys[key.lower()] = key > > --Gabriel Genellina > thanks guys, I'll think a while which solution I'll choose.
cheers, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list