os.path.normcase rationale?

[Chris Withers]

On 17/09/2010 03:35, Nobody wrote:
> os.path.normcase(path)
>      Normalize the case of a pathname. On Unix and Mac OS X, this returns
>      the path unchanged; on case-insensitive filesystems, it converts the
>      path to lowercase. On Windows, it also converts forward slashes to
>      backward slashes.
>
> It implies that the behaviour depends upon the actual filesystem, which
> isn't the case. It only depends upon the platform, i.e. it assumes that
> all filenames are case-sensitive on Unix systems and case-insensitive on
> Windows. But Unix systems can access FAT/SMBFS/etc filesystems which are
> case-insensitive.

Right, so in its current form it seems pretty useless ;-)

What I expected it to mean was "give me what the filesystem thinks this 
file path is", which doesn't seem unreasonable and would be a lot more 
useful, no matter the platform...

Chris

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