I think I'm missing something, why is case insensitivity a mess? On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:32 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:06 PM Steve Barnes <gadgetst...@live.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > I personally think that there is a better case for an ignore_case flag – > the number of times that I have been caught out with [‘a.doc’, ‘b.Doc’, > ‘c.DOC’] especially on MS platforms. > > > > Case insensitivity is a mess. I think it'd be a lot cleaner to keep > this as-is, and for the case insensitive use-case, people can still do > it manually. (Basically case-fold for the comparison, but then trim > from the original as is.) > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4Q2X4NSLCD5PBZMJ3TRQ7UGB73JI4AH7/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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