On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:39 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is >> case sensitive? I find that annoying. > >Because it comes from a language background of case sensitive >languages (C, shell, etc.). But read what the BDFL has to say about >it: <URL: >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-July/054788.html > As Guido's statement on his position on case sensitivity/insensitivity cited above was in response to a post/provocation of mine, its gives me, and I shall indulge myself in, an opportunity to partake of a favorite pasttime - venting, I will make it short: It gauls the hell out of me that that the Python community mass "head" was in such a strange place at that moment that I had to take the pose of maniacal extremist to have a sensible converstaion. Or that's the history I am writing, in any case. Art -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
