[Python-Dev] os.path.normcase rationale? (original) (raw)
Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Fri Sep 24 13:58:21 CEST 2010
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On 9/24/2010 6:13 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
On 18/09/2010 23:36, Guido van Rossum wrote:
course, exists() and isdir() etc. do, and so does realpath(), but the pure parsing functions don't. Yes, but: H:>echo foo > TeSt.txt ...>>> import os.path >>> os.path.realpath('test.txt') 'H:\test.txt' >>> os.path.normcase('TeSt.txt') 'test.txt' Both feel unsatisfying to me :-S How can I get 'TeSt.txt' from 'test.txt' (which feels like the contract normcase should have...) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3692261/in-python-how-can-i-get-the-correctly-cased-path-for-a-file They can be used without a working filesystem even. (E.g. you can import ntpath on a Unix box and happily parse Windows paths.) But what value does that add over just doing a .lower() on the path? Chris
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