[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Amedee> Python was invented in the early nineties. > > Amedee> It is only in the early zeroties that Python was ported to > Amedee> case-insensitive operating systems like Windows. > > Actually, Mac OS (something much less than X) was the original platform on > which Python was developed. I'm pretty sure it was ported to Windows before > 2000 as well. > > Skip
Completely useless tidbit of information: Forgot to point out that all NT-based OSes (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista) are actually case-sensitive. If you look at the API calls for the underlying file I/O in the kernel calls itself, NT goes out of its way to be case-insensitive. NT was probably case-sensitive until some user testing was performed and case-insensitivity was thrown in as a last-minute sort of thing. The NT kernel is still quite capable of being case-sensitive, but that requires bypassing the user-mode file I/O APIs. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Info/Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
