Hey Antoine, Some of my Dropbox colleagues just drew my attention to the occurrence of case folding in pathlib.py. Basically, case folding as an approach to comparing pathnames is fatally flawed. The issues include:
- most OSes these days allow the mounting of both case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems simultaneously - the case-folding algorithm on some filesystems is burned into the disk when the disk is formatted - case folding requires domain knowledge, e.g. turkish dotless I - normalization is a mess, even on OSX, where it's better defined than elsewhere One or more of them may reply-all to this message with more details. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
