>>>>> Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (DS) wrote: >DS> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >DS> Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Afternoon all, >>> >>> MacOS X seems to have some heretical ideas about the value of case in >>> paths - it seems to believe that it doesn't exist, more or less, so "touch >>> foo FOO" touches just one file, you can't have both 'makefile' and >>> 'Makefile' in the same directory, >>> "os.path.exists(some_valid_path.upper())" returns True even when >>> "os.path.split(some_valid_path.upper())[1] in >>> os.listdir(os.path.split(some_valid_path)[0])" returns False, etc >>> (although, of course, "ls *.txt" doesn't mention any of those .TXT files >>> lying around). >DS> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case >DS> insensitive. You can use other file systems, such as "UNIX File >DS> System". Use Disk Utility to create a disk image and then erase it >DS> (again, using Disk Utility) and put UFS on it. You'll find that "touch >DS> foo FOO" will create two files. It seems that with Tiger, HFS+ can be made case-sensitive. I haven't seen it, only read about it. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
