[Python-Dev] Path PEP: some comments (equality) (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 23 05:27:28 CET 2006
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Mark Mc Mahon wrote:
Should the path class implement an eq method that might do some of the following things: - Get the absolute path of both self and the other path
I don't think that any path operations should implicitly touch the file system like this. The paths may not represent real files or may be for a system other than the one the program is running on.
- normcase both
Not sure about this one either. When dealing with remote file systems, it can be hard to know whether a path will be interpreted as case-sensitive or not. This can be a problem even with local filesystems, e.g. on MacOSX where you can have both HFS (case-insensitive) and Unix (case-sensitive) filesystems mounted.
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