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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Case-sensitivity

Platforms also differ in terms of filesystem case sensitivity. On Linux, log.txt, LOG.txt, and LoG.TxT are all different files that can coexist in the same directory. On Windows, they will not.

The following table breaks down the case sensitivity of major operating systems:

System
Case-sensitive
Windows No
macOS Not default (configurable)
Linux Yes
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), most other Unix systems Yes

 

Problems with case (in)sensitivity usually depend on which system you're accustomed to:

  • Programmers used to a case-insensitive system tend to run into problems with inconsistent use of cases between the filesystem and program
  • Programmers used to a case-sensitive system can have problems when ...
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