On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:27 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2014-01-23 00:58, Larry Martell 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? >> > You don't say which OS. Filenames in Windows, for example, are already > case-insensitive.
Linux. > Try writing it the simplest and cleanest way, without thinking about > efficiency. If you discover that it really is too slow (you can always > try a smaller test case initially), then you can think about how to > speed it up. Yes, that's my plan. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list