On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: .. > Teaching students to write non-portable code (relying on filesystem encoding > where your solution is, don't upload to pypi anything that has non-ascii > filenames) seems like the exact opposite of how you'd want to shape a young > student's understanding of good programming practices. >
Let's not confuse language definition with the quality of implementation. It would be a perfectly valid Python implementation that would run on a system that does not even have a traditional filesystem and "import foo" looks up foo module code in an in-memory database. Should Python be redefined so that module names are case insensitive simply because case insensitive filesystems are still popular? I don't think so. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
