How to get the filename in the right case ?

[Stef Mientki]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Stef Mientki wrote:
>
>   
>> hello,
>>
>> How can I find the correct case of a filename ?
>>
>> Background in my program I use case sensitive filenames, just like
>> Python requires.
>> Now I've integrated pdb into the program,
>> but pdb acts somwhat strange:
>> upon a breakpoint it gives the filename always in lowercase (probably
>> this only happens on windows).
>>
>> So is there a way to get the correct case of a given filename in lowercase
>> ?
>>
>> One solution might be to make the comparison in my program always with
>> lowercase,
>> but then I'm sure the program won't work on non-windows systems.
>>
>> btw, why does pdb behave that way ( Python 2.5 ) ?
>>     
>
> I doubt it does. It sure doesn't on unix, and I fail to see any reason why
> it should do that on windows - given that the total number of lower() in
> pdb.py amounts to one, and that's used to process user-input such
> as "Yes", "y", "YES" or whatnot.
>
>   
Yes I'm pretty sure, two reasons:
1. when I perform a step_into, jumping into a file that doesn't have 
breakpoints itself (meaning my program doesn't even know of this file),
pdb returns a lowercase filename
2. rpdb2 (probably based or even inherited from pdb) has the same 
behavior. Asking the writer of rpdb2, I got some excuse (which I didn't 
understand) why he had done it that way.

>  Are you sure you are not processing the content through some lower()-call
> when embedding pdb? 
>
>   
But maybe pdb does ?

thanks anyway,
Stef
>   
> Diez
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