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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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()?