[Python-ideas] PEP 428 - object-oriented filesystem paths

[Greg Ewing]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> neither statvs, statvfs,  nor pathconf seem to be able to tell if a filesystem is case insensitive.

Even if they could, you wouldn't be entirely out of the woods,
because different parts of the same path can be on different
file systems...

But how important is all this anyway? I'm trying to think of
occasions when I've wanted to compare two entire paths for
equality, and I can't think of *any*.

-- 
Greg