Case insensitive dict

[Joseph L. Casale]

I was doing some work with the ldap module and required a ci dict that was case
insensitive but case preserving. It turned out the cidict class they implemented was
broken with respect to pop, it is inherited and not re implemented to work.Before
I set about re-inventing the wheel, anyone know of a working implementation?

I noticed twisted has one but it seems to omit pop.

Thanks!
jlc

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

I was doing some work with the ldap module and required a ci dict that
was case insensitive but case preserving. It turned out the cidict class
they implemented was broken with respect to pop, it is inherited and not
re implemented to work. Before I set about re-inventing the wheel,
anyone know of a working implementation?

class my_cidict(ldap.cidict):
"""Fix problems with pop."""
def pop(self):
# insert code here


You don't have to re-invent the entire wheel just to fix one broken
spoke

Other than that, no, I don't know of any case-insensitive but preserving
dicts. If you do decide to write one from scratch, please consider
releasing it as Open Source (I recommend GPL or MIT licences), either as
a module on PyPI or as a recipe on ActiveState.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/



Thank you.