[Python-Dev] os.path.normcase rationale?

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Sep 25 16:13:27 CEST 2010


Paul Moore writes:

 > In fact, with userfs, I believe it's possible to do massively
 > pathological things like having a filesystem which treats anagrams
 > as the same file (foo is the same file as oof or ofo). (More
 > realistically, MacOS does Unicode normalisation).

Nitpick: Mac OS X doesn't do Unicode normalization.  The default
filesystem implementation does.




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