[Python-Dev] Easy way to detect filesystem case-sensitivity? (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri May 8 01:39:41 CEST 2009

On 2009-05-07 18:29, Brett Cannon wrote:

[my python-dev sabbatical is still in effect, so make sure I am at least cc'ed on any replies to this email]

I cannot be the only person who has a need to run tests conditionally based on whether the file system is case-sensitive or not, so I feel like I am re-inventing the wheel for issue 5442 to handle OS X with a case-sensitive filesystem. Is there a boolean somewhere that I can simply check or get to know whether the filesystem is case-sensitive?

Since one may have more than one filesystem side-by-side, this can't be just be a system-wide boolean somewhere. One would have to query the target directory for this information. I am not aware of the existence of code that does such a query, though.

-- Robert Kern

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