python module

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'd like to point out that it's frustrating when you find a piece of code
> that you'd like to use but neither easy_install nor pip work cos it can't be
> found.  Worse still when you want to try a really popular product like
> taskcoach, but you can't get it cos some moronic OSes insist on being case
> sensitive.  Does that warrant a :) or a :(

Case sensitive is fine as long as everyone's consistent (eg
all-lowercase). The trouble with case insensitivity is that it becomes
non-trivial in Unicode - in fact, i18n case folding is impossible, or
nearly so. It's not as simple as masking bit 5 the way it is in ASCII.

ChrisA