import statement is case sensitive
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Fri Feb 23 19:26:12 EST 2001
"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> In Windows, you cannot _directly_ rename a file or directory
> to change its case (a Windows bug, I'd say); you have to
> rename Foo tempname
> rename tempname foo
> because trying to directly do
> rename Foo foo
> will fail.
Actually, I think that depends on filesystem (and perhaps OS). On my
NT4 system with NTFS I can rename just to change case without a
problem.
But I'm pretty sure it fails on a FAT filesystem since at some level in
the directory structure the name is uppercase in either case.
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