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Re: Case insensitive exists()?

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Date 2014-01-23 15:29 +1100
Subject Re: Case insensitive exists()?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am writing something that is part of a django app, that based on
> some web entry from the user, I run a query, get back a list of files
> and have to go receive them and serve them up back to the browser. My
> script is all done and seem to be working, then today I was informed
> it was not serving up all the images. Debugging revealed that it was
> this case issue - I was matching with exists(). As I've said, coding a
> solution is easy, but I fear it will be too slow. Speed is important
> in web apps - users have high expectations. Guess I'll just have to
> try it and see.

Would it be a problem to rename all the files? Then you could simply
lower() the input name and it'll be correct.

ChrisA

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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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