Windows DLL import error (bug?)

Campbell cb921 at voice.co.za
Sat Aug 11 07:57:47 EDT 2001


On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Tim Peters wrote:

>While NTFS is case-preserving but case-insensitive, Python switched to
>case-sensitive imports on all platforms; see PEP 235 for details:
>
>    http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0235.html
>
>If you can't keep your cases straight, you can set the envar PYTHONCASEOK,
>and then Python will ignore import case on Windows.  Not recommended,
>though.  Also move to the 2.1 bugfix release, 2.1.1 -- IIRC, it fixed some
>endcase import glitches on Windows.
>

As well handled as this issue seems to be it is the first unpleasant
surprise Python has given me.  Thanks for the help, again.




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