Dictionary to lowercase in Python

Question

I wish to do this but for a dictionary:

\"My string\".lower()

Is there a built in function or should I use a loop?

Answer 1

If you want keys and values of multi-nested dictionary (json format) lowercase, this might help. Need to have support for dict comprehensions what should be in Python 2.7

dic = {'A':['XX', 'YY', 'ZZ'],
       'B':(u'X', u'Y', u'Z'),
       'C':{'D':10,
            'E':('X', 'Y', 'Z'),
            'F':{'X', 'Y', 'Z'}
           },
       'G':{'X', 'Y', 'Z'}
      }

PYTHON2.7 -- also supports OrderedDict

def _lowercase(obj):
    """ Make dictionary lowercase """
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
        t = type(obj)()
        for k, v in obj.items():
            t[k.lower()] = _lowercase(v)
        return t
    elif isinstance(obj, (list, set, tuple)):
        t = type(obj)
        return t(_lowercase(o) for o in obj)
    elif isinstance(obj, basestring):
        return obj.lower()
    else:
        return obj 

PYTHON 3.6

def _lowercase(obj):
    """ Make dictionary lowercase """
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
        return {k.lower():_lowercase(v) for k, v in obj.items()}
    elif isinstance(obj, (list, set, tuple)):
        t = type(obj)
        return t(_lowercase(o) for o in obj)
    elif isinstance(obj, str):
        return obj.lower()
    else:
        return obj