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Re: Case insensitive exists()?

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:27 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-23 00:58, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> You don't say which OS. Filenames in Windows, for example, are already
> case-insensitive.

Linux.

> Try writing it the simplest and cleanest way, without thinking about
> efficiency. If you discover that it really is too slow (you can always
> try a smaller test case initially), then you can think about how to
> speed it up.

Yes, that's my plan.

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Re: Case insensitive exists()? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-22 21:25 -0700

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