Case sensitivity
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Sun Feb 23 12:01:29 EST 2003
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
> news:wxH5a.215215$0v.6019898 at news1.tin.it...
> > I don't want the compiler to "guess what I _mean_"
>
> How about an editor that guessed that rawinput (with whatever
> capitalization) or Raw_input (or any other variant) might mean
> raw_input and ask, at least once? Similarly for StringIO? Given that
> Python 2, at least, will not go case insensitive, perhaps there is a
> technical solution that would help most everybody.
Why limit it to an editor? How about a hook you could install
interactively - like readline - that would catch exceptions and offer
to let you change the names on the fly? Or maybe add it to pdb?
<mike
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