[Patches] From comp.lang.python: A compromise on case-sensitivity

[Tim Peters]

[Guido, on nickm@alum.mit.edu's patch]
> This is a nice idea, although one could argue that you have it
> backwards: you're helping case-careless people to use a case-sensitive
> language, while what we really need now for forward compatibility is a
> warning when case-sensitive people use names in the same namespace
> that only differ by case.

Asking the poor fellow to consider a patch for a language that doesn't
exist, employing a mechanism that doesn't exist either (i.e., a warning
subsystem), is a bit unrealistic <ahem>.  The patch is a great idea for what
Python 1.6 actually *is*.  Note that your good technical concerns were
addressed intelligently later.

long-way-to-spell-"+1-as-amended"-ly y'rs  - tim


PS:  Barry's exception patch appears to have broken the CVS Windows build
(nothing links anymore; all the PyExc_xxx symbols aren't found; no time to
dig more now).