Hy there, im pretty new in python and facing a problem, i cant find the answere. When receiving a path from tkinters filedialog.askdirectory, the path is "normcase" but i need to receive it as proper case. I'm using the path to kill a process with psutil - identified by its cmdline (apparently this is case sensitive) Original path: "C:\MyProjects\Folder1" Original process commandline: "C:\MyProjects\Folder1\process.exe" psutils will find and kill the process on windows when cmdline is set exactly to: "C:\MyProjects\Folder1\process.exe" but not as "c:\myprojects\folder1\process.exe" How can i get the original case? How i get the path with askdirectory: tk_path = filedialog.askdirectory(initialdir=r"C:\MyProjects", title="...") result: "c:\myprojects\folder1" I've tried to adjust the path with win32api: cased_path = win32api.GetLongPathName(tk_path) cased_path = os.path.splitext(cased_path)[0] result: "c:\MyFolder\Folder1" the "c:" is still lowercase and I've tried to adjust it with glob: cased_path = glob.glob(re.sub(r'([^:])(?=[/\\]|$)', r'[\1]', tk_path))[0] same result: "c:\MyProjects\Folder1" the "c:" is still lowercase My current workaround is to take the adjusted string (returned from win32api), split it, capitalize the first part and put all back together. splitted_path = cased_path.split(":",1) first_part = splitted_path[0].capitalize() second_part = ":" + splitted_path[1] final_path = first_part + second_part result: "C:\MyProjects\Folder1" This works, but feels really stupid ^^ How i kill the process by its cmdline: def kill_process(commandline): for proc in psutil.process_iter(['pid', 'cmdline']): try: cmdline_list = proc.info.get('cmdline') if not cmdline_list: continue cmdline_str = ' '.join(cmdline_list) if commandline in cmdline_str: proc.kill() except (psutil.NoSuchProcess, psutil.AccessDenied, psutil.ZombieProcess): continue Continue reading...
