Michael Witten added the comment:
Guess what?
Linux can access HFS+ and NTFS volumes.
Firstly, how does that fit into your ideas for testing? It doesn't;
however, you'll note that my own brief analysis did attempt to wrestle
with this nuance.
Secondly, it was (and is) clearly asinine to conflate an operating
system with a particular file system; PEP 235 betrays the naive
ways of ancient thinkers---the spirit of the text of PEP 235
has never been completely implemented, and the result of this
naivete is a broken userspace *today*.
Here are the cases for my patch:
* Non-POSIX platforms: Nothing changes.
* POSIX platforms:
* PYTHONCASEOK set: Nothing changes.
* PYTHONCASEOK not set: Almost nothing changes.
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Accessing an insane file
system now works just like
on a Non-POSIX platform. In
most cases, this won't change
anything; yet, rare cases
will *now* Just Work, rather
than crapping out with some
inscrutable error.
Where is your qualm?
As for the organization of patches, what I have presented (and
especially what I describe for a merge commit) not only meets
your stated goals, but *exceeds* them in every way.
Nevertheless, I would be willing to dumb down my submission if
it meant getting this bug fixed.
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It's rude to close abruptly an issue without even the implicit
consent of your collocutor, especially when the reasoning for
such an action is, once again, based explicitly on a startling
degree of willful ignorance and maybe even technical incompetence.
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resolution: rejected ->
status: closed -> open
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