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. 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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
