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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 9 Oct, 2012, at 0:23, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> 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*.

AFAIK the only place I care about case sensitivity in my code is when I'm basicly using glob or fnmatch.

Ronald

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> Greg
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