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18 changes: 16 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1841,7 +1841,16 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
intended to remove all case distinctions in a string. For example, the German
lowercase letter ``'ß'`` is equivalent to ``"ss"``. Since it is already
lowercase, :meth:`lower` would do nothing to ``'ß'``; :meth:`casefold`
converts it to ``"ss"``.
converts it to ``"ss"``. This is useful for case-insensitive string comparisons.
For example:

.. doctest::

>>> 'straße'.lower() == 'strasse'
False
>>> 'straße'.casefold() == 'strasse'
True


The casefolding algorithm is `described in section 3.13.3 'Default Case
Folding' of the Unicode Standard
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.. method:: str.lower()

Return a copy of the string with all the cased characters [4]_ converted to
lowercase.
lowercase. For example:

.. doctest::

>>> 'Lower Method Example'.lower()
'lower method example'

The lowercasing algorithm used is `described in section 3.13.2 'Default Case
Conversion' of the Unicode Standard
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