Method count

recipes/Python/284569_caselessList/recipe-284569.py:85–93

Counts references to 'item' in a caseless manner. If item is not a string it will always return 0.

(self, item)

            list.append(self, entry)        

    def count(self, item):
        """Counts references to 'item' in a caseless manner.
        If item is not a string it will always return 0."""
        if not isinstance(item, str): return 0
        count = 0
        for entry in self:
            if item.lower() == entry.lower():
                count += 1
        return count    

    def index(self, item, minindex=0, maxindex=None):
        """Provide an index of first occurence of item in the list. (or raise a ValueError if item not present)