enable experiment_id_validate() to return true with lowercase letters.

pymods/experiment_id/experiment_id.py

@@ -50,16 +50,18 @@ def experiment_number_to_id( experiment_number ):
 
 # Validate
 
-def experiment_id_validate( experiment_id ):
+def experiment_id_validate( a_experiment_id ):
     try:
-        if len( experiment_id ) != 9 :
-            if trc: print( "experiment_id not 9 chars. experiment_id: ", experiment_id )
+        if len( a_experiment_id ) != 9 :
+            if trc: print( "experiment_id not 9 chars. a_experiment_id: ", a_experiment_id )
             return False
 
-        if experiment_id[4:5] != '-' :
-            if trc: print( "experiment_id 5th char not - (hyphen). experiment_id:", experiment_id )
+        if a_experiment_id[4:5] != '-' :
+            if trc: print( "experiment_id 5th char not - (hyphen). a_experiment_id:", a_experiment_id )
             return False
 
+        experiment_id = a_experiment_id.upper()
+
         exp_hash_id = experiment_id[:4] + experiment_id[5:]
         if trc: print( "exp_hash_id: ", exp_hash_id )
 
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ def experiment_id_validate( experiment_id ):
         rc = exp_hash_id_rev == experiment_id
         return rc
     except Exception as ex:
-        if trc: print(" Failed to validate id: " + str(experiment_id) + " exr: " + str( ex ) )
+        if trc: print(" Failed to validate id: " + str(a_experiment_id) + " exr: " + str( ex ) )
     return False
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":