os.path.splitext() and case sensitivity

[Richie Hindle]

[rbt]
> Is there a way to make os.path.splitext() case agnostic?
> 
> def remove_file_type(target_dir, file_type):
>      for root, dirs, files in os.walk(target_dir):
>          for f in files:
>              if os.path.splitext(os.path.join(root, f))[1] in file_type:
>                  pass
> 
> remove_file_type(sysroot, ['.tmp', '.TMP'])

  def remove_file_type(target_dir, file_type):
      [...]
               if os.path.splitext(f)[1].lower() == file_type.lower():
                   pass

remove_file_type(sysroot, '.tmp')

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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com