In article <98b8e796-eeb7-4c19-92b9-200bfed9a...@gmail.com>, Klaasmer <klaas...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
[Note to readers here: the OP asked this question also on Stack Overflow and has subsequently found that the same behavior is exhibited by an ObjC program. So it turns out to not be a Python issue at all.] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4073469/how-can-i-get-the-correct-case -when-calling-pythons-os-getcwd -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
