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Case sensitive path - asheru93 - Jan-28-2019
Hello,
I want to open and setup.exe from python but sometimes it might be with uppercase like Setup.exe. How can I handle it properly?
I have:
myAppLowercase = path\setup.exe
myAppUppercase = path\Setup.exe
RE: Case sensitive path - Larz60+ - Jan-28-2019
what is path/setup.exe?
this code can't possibly work as posted.
please explain in more detail what you are trying to do.
RE: Case sensitive path - asheru93 - Jan-28-2019
Sorry for missing some important information.
So i want to install an specific app from a python script using this:
os.system('path_to_setup.exe')
This script will be executed on different machines. The app I want to install has multiple versions and for some of them the kit is with uppercase (Setup.exe) and for some of them with lowercase(setup.exe). I have a variable that has the path with lowercase for now:
myInstallPath = path\setup.exe
What I want is to be able to execute, os.system(myInstallPath) no matter if the kit installer is with uppercase or with lowercase.
Thank you
RE: Case sensitive path - mlieqo - Jan-28-2019
If there are only two possibilities, you can check if the first one exists otherwise use the second path:
my_install_path = 'my_path/setup.exe' if os.path.exists('my_path/setup.exe') else 'my_path/Setup.exe'
RE: Case sensitive path - buran - Jan-28-2019
the path is not case-sensitive on Windows, so it shouldn't matter
RE: Case sensitive path - snippsat - Jan-28-2019
Also should not be using
os.system() it's deprecated and replaced by the subprocess module.As mention bye @buran so is path/file name not case-sensitive.
import subprocess subprocess.run(['python', 'version.py'])So if i have
VeRsiOn.py as filename it make no difference it run fine.
RE: Case sensitive path - asheru93 - Jan-28-2019
Thank you for your responses.