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Sun Sep 19 00:36:58 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/103824.html

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm curious as to why, with a file called "Foo.txt" on a case descriminating
> but case insensitive filesystem, os.path.normcase('FoO.txt') will return
> "foo.txt" rather than "Foo.txt"?
>
> Yes, I know the behaviour is documented, but I'm wondering if anyone can
> remember the rationale for that behaviour?

Because normcase() and friends never look at the filesystem. Of
course, exists() and isdir() etc. do, and so does realpath(), but the
pure parsing functions don't. They can be used without a working
filesystem even. (E.g. you can import ntpath on a Unix box and happily
parse Windows paths.)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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