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import re


    

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lst = [
    "wip: foo bar",
    "foo aa",
    "wip: aaa",
    "WIP: bb"
]

sorted(lst,key=lambda a: re.sub("(?i)^wip\:\s*","",a))


    

    
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['wip: aaa', 'WIP: bb', 'foo aa', 'wip: foo bar']

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re.match("(?i)^foo.*","Foo")


    

    
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<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='Foo'>

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re.match("(?i)^foo.*","FOO")


    

    
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<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='FOO'>

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re.match("(?i)^foo.*","foo")


    

    
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<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='foo'>

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