On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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. > Also, let's not forget that apart from comparison (Path('a') == Path('A')), matching and globbing, the WindowsPath class does not normalize the case of pathname components (only slash vs. backslash, redundant [back]slashes, and redundant '.' components are handled). So if you are in the unusual circumstances where you have to use case-sensitive paths on Windows, you can still use WindowsPath. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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