<s>[INST] How do I do a case insensitive string comparison in Python? What's the best way to do case insensitive string comparison in Python?
I would like to encapsulate comparison of a regular strings to a repository string using in a very simple and pythonic way.  I also would like to have ability to look up values in a dict hashed by strings using regular python strings.  Much obliged for advice.
 [/INST] Assuming ASCII strings:
string1 = 'Hello'
string2 = 'hello'

if string1.lower() == string2.lower():
    print "The strings are the same (case insensitive)"
else:
    print "The strings are not the same (case insensitive)"

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