colour.utilities.CaseInsensitiveMapping¶

class colour.utilities.CaseInsensitiveMapping(data=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Bases: collections.abc.MutableMapping

Implements a case-insensitive mutable mapping / dict object.

Allows values retrieving from keys while ignoring the key case. The keys are expected to be unicode or string-like objects supporting the str.lower() method.

Parameters: data (dict) – dict of data to store into the mapping at initialisation.
Other Parameters: **kwargs (dict, optional) – Key / Value pairs to store into the mapping at initialisation.

__setitem__()[source]¶

__getitem__()[source]¶

__delitem__()[source]¶

__contains__()[source]¶

__iter__()[source]¶

__len__()[source]¶

__eq__()[source]¶

__ne__()[source]¶

__repr__()¶

copy()[source]¶

lower_items()[source]¶

Warning

The keys are expected to be unicode or string-like objects.

References

[Rei]

Examples

>>> methods = CaseInsensitiveMapping({'McCamy': 1, 'Hernandez': 2})
>>> methods['mccamy']
1

copy()[source]

Returns a copy of the mapping.

Returns: Mapping copy.
Return type: CaseInsensitiveMapping

Notes

The colour.utilities.CaseInsensitiveMapping class copy returned is a simple copy not a deepcopy.

property data¶

Getter and setter property for the data.

Parameters: value (dict) – Value to set the data with.
Returns: Data.
Return type: dict

lower_items()[source]

Iterates over the lower items names.

Returns: Lower item names.
Return type: generator