[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] os.path.normcase rationale?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sat Sep 25 04:14:51 CEST 2010


On 25/09/2010 02:56, Greg Ewing 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().
>
'actualcase' perhaps? Does it need to end in 'path'?



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