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I have the need to check for a files existence against a string, but I
need to do case-insensitively. I cannot efficiently get the name of
every file in the dir and compare each with my string using lower(),
as I have 100's of strings to check for, each in a different dir, and
each dir can have 100's of files in it. Does anyone know of an
efficient way to do this? There's no switch for os.path that makes
exists() check case-insensitively is there?

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Case insensitive exists()? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-22 17:58 -0700
  Re: Case insensitive exists()? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-22 20:08 -0500
    Re: Case insensitive exists()? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-22 18:18 -0700
      Re: Case insensitive exists()? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-22 20:27 -0500
        Re: Case insensitive exists()? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-22 21:24 -0700
        Re: Case insensitive exists()? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 15:29 +1100
        Re: Case insensitive exists()? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 15:43 +0000
        Re: Case insensitive exists()? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 12:02 -0700
      Re: Case insensitive exists()? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-01-23 07:51 +0000
  Re: Case insensitive exists()? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-23 12:06 +0000
  Re: Case insensitive exists()? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-23 14:58 +0000

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