On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:36 AM, James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net> wrote:

An OSX code sketch is available here (summary: call FSPathMakeRef to get an FSRef from a path string, then FSRefMakePath to make it back into a path, which will then have the correct case). And note that it only works if the file actually exists.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370186/how-do-i-find-the-correct-case-of-a-filename

It would indeed be useful to have that be available in Python.

There is a much simpler way:

>>> from Carbon import File

>>> File.FSRef('/tmp/foo').as_pathname()

'/private/tmp/Foo'

Note that this is much slower compared to os.path.exists.