On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I'd like to point out that it's frustrating when you find a piece of code > that you'd like to use but neither easy_install nor pip work cos it can't be > found. Worse still when you want to try a really popular product like > taskcoach, but you can't get it cos some moronic OSes insist on being case > sensitive. Does that warrant a :) or a :(
Case sensitive is fine as long as everyone's consistent (eg all-lowercase). The trouble with case insensitivity is that it becomes non-trivial in Unicode - in fact, i18n case folding is impossible, or nearly so. It's not as simple as masking bit 5 the way it is in ASCII. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
