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POHow can I get the correct case when calling Python's os.getcwd()?
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copied!<p>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 </p> <p>/users/myusername</p> <p>instead of</p> <p>/Users/myusername</p> <p>On another Mac I get the correct uppercase string. How can I configure this? Is there a (hidden) Python setting?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>In reply to the suggested solutions:</p> <p>(1) DiskUtil says that my drive has a format of "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I bought my computer some month ago and it's still the original drive, never reformatted.</p> <p>(2) Another python console session log:</p> <p>$>>> os.system('pwd')</p> <p>/Users/klaas</p> <p>0</p> <p>$>>> os.getcwd()"</p> <p>'/users/klaas'</p> <p>$>>> os.path.normcase('/Users/klaas')</p> <p>'/Users/klaas'</p> <p>$>>> os.chdir('/UsErS/klaas')</p> <p>$>>> os.getcwd()</p> <p>'/users/klaas'</p> <p>$>>> os.chdir('/UsErS/klaas')</p> <p>$>>> os.getcwd()</p> <p>'/users/klaas'</p> <p><b>Update 2:</b></p> <p>Thanks for all the replies. I created a test case in Objective-C and it has the same lowercase folder name:</p> <pre><code>NSFileManager *filemgr; NSString *currentpath; filemgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; currentpath = [filemgr currentDirectoryPath]; NSLog (@"Current directory is %@", currentpath); </code></pre>

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