Tim Golden wrote: > BWill wrote: >> Hi, I'm writing a file browser, but I'm not sure how I could go about >> detecting the drives available on windows and linux systems (preferably >> using the standard modules if possible). I guess I could just try to >> list root on each letter of the alphabet for windows and see if it >> works, but that seems crude; besides, I want to know what kind of drive >> each drive/partition is (i.e. is it local and is it a harddrive or >> optical drive). > > I'm not aware of any cross-platform way of doing this. > On Windows you have a few options, but I'd go down > the WMI route; it just makes life easier for doing this > kind of thing. You might want to start by adapting this > example: > > http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#percentage_free > > by removing the restriction to fixed disk (DriveType=3) > > TJG >
oh, I wasn't expecting a single solution for both platforms, just some good solutions thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
