i18n: use UTF-8 string to lower filename for case collision check Some character sets, cp932 (known as Shift-JIS for Japanese) for example, use 0x41('A') - 0x5A('Z') and 0x61('a') - 0x7A('z') as second or later character. In such character set, case collision checking recognizes different files as CASEFOLDED same file, if filenames are treated as byte sequence. win32mbcs extension is not appropriate to handle this problem, because this problem can occur on other than Windows platform only if problematic character set is used. Callers of util.checkcase() use known ASCII filenames as last component of path, and string.lower() is not applied to directory part of path. So, util.checkcase() is kept intact, even though it applies string.lower() to filenames.

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check-code: disallow use of hasattr() The hasattr() builtin from Python < 3.2 [1] has slightly surprising behavior: it catches all exceptions, even KeyboardInterrupt. This causes it to have several surprising side effects, such as hiding warnings that occur during attribute load and causing mysterious failure modes when ^Cing an application. In later versions of Python 2.x [0], exception classes which do not inherit from Exception (such as SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt) are not caught, but other types of exceptions may still silently cause returning False instead of getting a reasonable exception. [0] http://bugs.python.org/issue2196 [1] http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html