[Zope] Fourth request for help - Win2K+Zope

[Jeff K. Hoffman]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Martijn Pieters wrote:

> I am glad that this is solved. I ponder at the case-sensitivity though.
> Maybe Python doesn't detect the OS properly? I am not fully sure as to how
> Python decides when to ignore case, but it is clearly broken on your Win2k
> install. Also, the lack of error messages was very vexing and confusing.

This is discussed partially in Guido's essay on the Python Package
mechanism. This is why you must specify the __all__ symbol in a package's
__init__.py if you want it to behave well in a cross-platform situation.

At least, that's my take on it. ;-)

--Jeff

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