How do I lowercase a string in Python?

Question

Is there a way to convert a string from uppercase, or even part uppercase to lowercase?

For example, \"Kilometers\" → \"kilometers\".

Answer 1

With Python 2, this doesn't work for non-English words in UTF-8. In this case decode('utf-8') can help:

>>> s='Километр'
>>> print s.lower()
Километр
>>> print s.decode('utf-8').lower()
километр