[Pythonmac-SIG] os.getcwd() returns lower case current working directory

[Sean DiZazzo]

When formatting a drive last week, I noticed that Mac allows you to format
as case-insensitive.  Just a guess.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Klaasmer <klaasmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> when I call os.getcwd() on my Mac under OS X 10.6.4 from my home directory,
> the path is converted to lowercase. I get
>
> /users/myusername
>
> instead of
>
> /Users/myusername
>
> On another Mac I get the correct uppercase string. How can I configure
> this? Is there a (hidden) Python setting?
>
> Reason for asking: On OS X all user directories are in "/Users". This is
> always uppercase. When using Mercurial, it gets sometimes confused with this
> strange and incorrect normalization of my current directory.
>
> Best regards,
> Klaas.
>
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