Case insensitive exists()?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-01-23, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> 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?

If you're on Unix, you could use os.popen() to run a find command
using -iname.

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