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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Sep 25 12:11:42 CEST 2010


On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:56:06 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Maybe the API could be called os.path.unnormpath(), since it is in a > sense the opposite of normpath() (which removes case) ? Cute, but not very intuitive. Something like actualpath() might be better -- although that's somewhat arbitrarily different from realpath().

Again, why not simply improve realpath()?



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