On 19/05/2019 01:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > That's not quite right -- case sensitivity of the OS isn't important, > case sensitivity of the *file system* is. And the standard file system > on Mac OS, HFS+, defaults to case-preserving but case-insensitive. > > (There is an option to turn case-sensitivity off, but hardly anyone uses > it because too many applications break.)
Oops, my mistake. Almost all my MacOS knowledge is based on my ancient iBook. Having had a look, it appears it's formatted in UFS rather than HFS+ so I assume I must have done something to force that when I first installed the system back in 2001... It certainly appears to be case sensitive but life is too short for me to do extensive testing right now! > Fun fact: even NTFS supports a case-sensitive mode! But again, hardly > anyone uses it. Hmm, odd. My NTFS filesystems on Windows all appear to be case sensitive. For example I have a photo editor that saves its files with a jpg extension but the files from my camera all end in JPG. So I always end up with two copies - the original file and the edited version. I'm not aware of having done anything to cause that. More investigation required I think... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
