On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:25:20 +0000 Garth Bushell <ga...@garthy.com> wrote: > > I'm also quite uneasy on the case insensitive comparison on Windows as the > File system NTFS is case sensitive. > > """Current Windows file systems, like NTFS, are case-sensitive; that is a > readme.txt and a Readme.txt can exist in the same directory. Windows > disallows the user to create a second file differing only in case due to > compatibility issues with older software not designed for such > operation.""" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_sensitivity)
Well the path class is named WindowsPath, not NTFSPath. In other words, it embodies path semantics as exposed by the Windows system and API, not what NTFS is able to do. Having per-filesystem concrete path classes would quickly grow of control (do we need a separate class for FAT32 filesystems? what if Windows later switches to another filesystem?). The PEP already points to a corresponding discussion: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0428/#case-sensitivity > If people create .PY files it wouldn't work on Linux so why make it work on > windows? What do you mean with "work"? What I know is that if I save a something.PY file under Windows and then double-click on it in the Explorer, it will be launched with the Python interpreter. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
