[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Ned Deily added the comment: (And such a change would only be appropriate in a feature release, as it would complicate things for existing release installers and downstream distributions, etc.) -- stage: -> patch review versions: -Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Ned Deily added the comment: I'm +0 on the name change but, again, it wouldn't solve the conflict problem for potential users of the readme package until 3.6. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I agree with Robert: renaming the file to README.txt would be a good idea regardless to enable easily opening the file with a GUI editor and as a bonus removes any change of conflict with a package name. The patch looks good to me. -- __

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Changes by Robert Collins : -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39924/issue24633.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Robert Collins added the comment: So, README is a valid package name. readme conflicting with README on case insensitive filesystems is a special case, but the general problem remains. We've no particular reason to use README rather than e.g. README.txt, which would open with a much more reaso

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

Ned Deily added the comment: I agree with IIan's comments you cited in https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/AGHXzB1sN0I. Python has been installing the README file in site-packages for a very long time and there have been case-insensitive file systems for a very lon

[issue24633] Not a directory: '//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/readme/__about__.py'

New submission from Sébastien Celles: Hello, the package name "readme" conflicts with Python installed site-packages/README file on case-insensitive filesystems (Mac OS X). https://github.com/pypa/readme/issues/26 https://github.com/mgedmin/restview/issues/30 https://groups.google.com/a/contin