> > I agree that it's an alternative. There are a number of alternatives. > However the OP was asking for a "neater/easier" alternative. I argue > that introducing an external module/function to do the exact same thing > as a built-in type's method doesn't exactly qualify as a "neater/easier" > alternative.
I argue that it is this functional approach looks visually clean and hence may appeal to a readers sense of "neatness" or aesthetics. No one is right or wrong in this case, they are both fine solutions. > In fact, unless you are using a *very* old version of python, if you > look at the implementation of string.lower(s) it simply returns > s.lower(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list