I noticed that these days __file__ attributes of modules are case normalized (ie. lowercased on case insensitive file systems), or at least the directory part. Then I noticed that this is caused by the fact that all sys.path entries are case normalized. It turns out that site.py does this, in a function called makepath(), added by Fred about 8 months ago. I think this is wrong: we should always try to *preserve* case. I see os.path.normcase() as a tool to be able to better compare two paths, but you shouldn't *store* paths this way. I for one am irritated when I see a path that doesn't have the proper case. The intention of makepath() in site.py seems good -- it turns all paths into absolute paths -- but is the normcase really neccesary? *** Please CC follow-ups to me, as I'm not on python-dev. Just
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