| Tim Golden wrote: | > [Qiangning Hong] | > | How can my program find out the type of disc in my CD-RW | > | drive? I want | > | my program behaves differently depend on the type: if it | is a normal | > | CD-ROM, read data from it; if a recordable CD, burn data onto it. | > | > If you're on Windows, I think WMI can do it. Check out the | > Win32_CDROMDrive class and its Capabilities attribute. | > | | Thanks for your answer. | | I installed the wmi module and use the following code to generate | Win32_CDROMDrive's Capabilities: | | >>> import wmi | >>> c = wmi.WMI() | >>> cds = c.CDROMDrive() | >>> cds | [<wmi._wmi_object instance at 0x00EDC508>] | >>> cds[0].Capabilities | (3, 7) | | I have only one CD-RW drive with an empty CD-R disc inserted. It is | expected that the capability "4" (write access) should be in | cds[0].Capabilities. However it isn't there.
Looks like I'm wrong then. I only have a CDROM (ie read, not write) and I also saw (3, 7). When I checked the docs I assumed that a CDRW would give you the 4. Might still be worth Googling a bit for WMI CDRW or something to see if there is some other solution within WMI. Maybe the more general purpose Win32_LogicalDisk or some other class will have the information. I don't know for sure, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't somewhere in WMI. TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
