os.path.normcase rationale?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 15 19:14:55 EDT 2010


Ben Finney wrote:
> it doesn't matter what the case is, so there's no need for
> anything more complex than all lowercase.

Also doing what was suggested would require looking at
what's in the file system, which would be a lot of bother
to go to for no good reason, and would fail for paths
that don't correspond to an existing file.

-- 
Greg



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