Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Agreed. That is how Bazaar's test suite detects this, and it works well.
>
> -Andrew.
Actually, I believe we do:
open('format', 'wb').close()
try:
os.lstat('FoRmAt')
except IOError, e:
if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
...
I don't know that it really matters, just wanted to indicate we use
'lstat' rather than 'open()' to check. I could be wrong about the test
suite, but I know that is what we do for 'live' files. (We always create
a format file, so we know it is there to 'stat' it via a different name.)
John
=:->
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