PEP0238 lament AND Re: Case (In)sensitivity

John W. Baxter jwbaxter at spamcop.com
Wed Jul 25 02:09:13 EDT 2001


In article <acppltstdl0oo692su8e9c4fhm6cf14kt9 at 4ax.com>, Stephen Horne
<steve at lurking.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> The only nervous twitch is the thought that identifiers are
> stored in dictionaries.

The only way case insensitivity has a chance is if identifiers are
stored in dictionaries with special rules, or are stored in ordinary
dictionaries with case of keys already smashed, and extracted smashed.

I hope.

  --John



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