[Python-ideas] Small enhancement to os.path.splitext

[Mike Meyer]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:33:10 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > If the user typed the filename "foo.c" and I
> > am trying to decide if it has the ".C" extension. If "foo.C" exists on
> > the disk and the user knows that "foo.c" and "foo.C" are the same
> > file, it's reasonable for the user to expect the application to figure
> > out that this file has the ".C" extension, even though they typed
> > ".c".
> But you don't know whether the user is expecting this. If he
> knows that gcc distinguishes between .c and .C, it may be that
> he is expecting foo to be compiled as a C file rather than C++,
> and he made a mistake when he named the file foo.C.

Given that the argument for making the test case-insensitive to start
with was that the user expects .JPG and .jpg to be the same, I think
you just shot down the case for making the test case-insensitive as
well.

      <mike
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