Case insensitive dictionary

Question

I\'d like my dictionary to be case insensitive.

I have this example code:

text = \"practice changing the color\"

words = {\'color\': \'colour\',
            


        

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly and you want a way to key dictionaries in a non case-sensitive fashion, one way would be to subclass dict and overload the setter / getter:

class CaseInsensitiveDict(dict):
    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        super(CaseInsensitiveDict, self).__setitem__(key.lower(), value)

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return super(CaseInsensitiveDict, self).__getitem__(key.lower())