[docs] [issue23079] os.path.normcase documentation confusing

Serhiy Storchaka report at bugs.python.org
Thu Dec 18 15:46:41 CET 2014


Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

> Or would s/case-insensitive/not case-preserving/ be more accurate?  (Well,
> you'd probably rewrite the sentence to eliminate the 'not').

This would not be more accurate because behavior depends from OS, not from file 
system. On Unix/Linux your can mount case-insensitive filesystem, but 
normcase() doesn't know anything about this.

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