From 81a306d5fc7c0f736f9952c10a364754e278a974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Guaraglia <david@guaraglia.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:16:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update djangorestframework/views.py
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Avoid the extra call to .lower 
---
 djangorestframework/views.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/djangorestframework/views.py b/djangorestframework/views.py
index 4aa6ca0cd..611723c55 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/views.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/views.py
@@ -220,8 +220,9 @@ class View(ResourceMixin, RequestMixin, ResponseMixin, AuthMixin, DjangoView):
             self._check_permissions()
 
             # Get the appropriate handler method
-            if self.method.lower() in self.http_method_names:
-                handler = getattr(self, self.method.lower(), self.http_method_not_allowed)
+            method_name = self.method.lower()
+            if method_name in self.http_method_names:
+                handler = getattr(self, method_name, self.http_method_not_allowed)
             else:
                 handler = self.http_method_not_allowed