[issue26655] pathlib glob case sensitivity issue on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread Udo Eberhardt
Udo Eberhardt added the comment: Meanwhile I realized this problem as well. There is no easy solution to determine exact spelling of the entire path. So it seems there is no simple solution to my problem. The concept of treating file system paths case-insensitive (as Windows does) seems to be

[issue26655] pathlib glob case sensitivity issue on Windows

2016-03-29 Thread Udo Eberhardt
Udo Eberhardt added the comment: So this is a trade-off between consistent behavior and efficiency. My point of view is that glob is for enumerating matching files and it should consistently return the real file names. Typically glob will be called with a pattern like '*.txt' and it

[issue26655] pathlib glob case sensitivity issue on Windows

2016-03-28 Thread Udo Eberhardt
New submission from Udo Eberhardt: On Windows Path.glob does not always return the file name with correct case. If the current directory contains a file named MixedCase.txt then the following script: import pathlib p = pathlib.Path('.') print(list(p.glob('*.txt')