Uwe Hoffmann wrote: > Steve Holden schrieb: > >>Uwe Hoffmann wrote: >> >> >>>cjl schrieb: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I do set pythonpath, see above. >>>> >>> >>>is pythonpath really case insensitive on windows ? >> >> >>Only because the Windows filesystem implements case-insensitive >>semantics. This is nothing to do with Python: > > > no, i mean't the name not the content. Is the handling of the > env variable pythonpath case insensitive: pythonpath <--> PYTHONPATH. > You live and learn. Apparently it is:
C:\Steve\Projects\Python\dbimp>set SCREWUP="This is Windows" C:\Steve\Projects\Python\dbimp>python Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc >>> import os; print os.environ["screwup"] "This is Windows" >>> It turns out that there's code in os.py specifically for os2 and NT systems, wherein a subclass of userDict is declared that used case-insensitive pattern matching: >>> os.environ.__class__ <class os._Environ at 0x0098CCC0> >>> regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
