[Python-Dev] Easy way to detect filesystem case-sensitivity?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 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.

Or you can just be practical and test for it. Create a file "foobar" and see if
you can open "FOOBAR" in read mode...

Regards

Antoine.