On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Think about it - how many things used by average people are case
>> sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user
>> passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email
>>
Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Think about it - how many things used by average people are case
> sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user
> passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email
> addresses, URLs, the search box in Google, your AO
On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
>> Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is
>>> case
>>> insensitive.
>
> Aaah, of course. Why
On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Michael Anthony Maibaum wrote:
> You can choose if HFS+ behaves in a case-preserving, case-insensitive
> or case-sensitive manner. See man newfs_hfs. Case sensitive is not
> supported on the 'System' volume, but I have several external disks
> using it without a proble
On 4 Jan 2006, at 02:50, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
>> Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is
>>> case
>>> insensitive.
>
You can choose if HFS+ be
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> It seems that with Tiger, HFS+ can be made case-sensitive. I haven't seen
> it, only read about it.
Yes, indeed, that is possible. I tried it, once. Right now I'm using
the case insensitive version again, which should tell you how well it
works - the canon utilities of my
> 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 l
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
> Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case
>> insensitive.
Aaah, of course. Why on earth didn't Apple move to UFS/FFS/whatever with
the switch to
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Tom Anderson wrote:
>
>> Java has a java.io.File.getCanonicalPath method that does this, but i can't
>> find an equivalent in python - is there one?
>
> What's wrong with: os.path.normcase(path) ?
It doesn't work.
Hooke:~ tom$ uname
Darwin
Hooke:
Tom Anderson wrote:
> Java has a java.io.File.getCanonicalPath method that does this, but i
> can't find an equivalent in python - is there one?
>
> I can emulate it like this:
I think it could be implemented more efficiently with getattrlist(2),
looking for ATTR_CMN_NAME. Unfortunately, there ap
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case
> insensitive. You can use other file systems, such as "UNIX File
> System". Use Disk Utility to create a disk image and then erase it
> (again, usin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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
Tom Anderson wrote:
> Java has a java.io.File.getCanonicalPath method that does this, but i
> can't find an equivalent in python - is there one?
What's wrong with: os.path.normcase(path) ?
--Scott David Daniels
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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.u
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