On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
I am not sure to follow the issue. Do you mean that in the same filesystem, each directory can treat case sensivity differently ? I wasn't aware of that.
I've never seen a filesystem that doesn't treat case-sensitivity consistently, regardless of path. But a single hierarchy composed of multiple filesystems may have different behaviors in different directories, because they're mounted from different filesystems.
How would this affect the extension btw ? I can imagine that the path+extensions could to be normalized before the matching job, but I don't see other issue, do you have an example ?
I suspect a substantial part of the problem is really that Python doesn't expose an API to normalize a path based on it's actual location in the hierarchy; the operating system is used, but nothing that deals with a path on a mounted filesystem that has non-default behavior when compared to the traditional OS-centric expectations. For a specific example, consider mounting a case-insensitive HFS filesystem from Unix (well, most current Unixes): If the HFS is mounted at /MyHfsMount (on an ext3 filesystem), and contains a hierarchy /Folder/SomeFile.txt, the file would have an absolute path of /MyHfsMount/Folder/SomeFile.txt But the normalized path should be: /MyHfsMount/folder/somefile.txt (Note that each path segment is normalized according to the filesystem it's on, rather than the running OS.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller