[Python-Dev] os.path.normcase rationale? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 26 00:57:47 CEST 2010


Paul Moore wrote:

Windows has (I believe) user definable filesystems, too, but the OS has "get me the real filename" style calls,

Does it really, though? The suggestions I've seen for doing this involve abusing the short/long filename translation machinery, and I'm not sure they're guaranteed to return the actual case rather than something that happens to work.

-- Greg



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