Atanas Banov wrote:
> Bryan Olson wrote:
>
>>To get it with the \, you might use:
>>
>> os.path.abspath(os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE'])
>
>
> wrong!
> the result is incorrect if the current directory is different from the
> root.
Oops, sorry. I
Bryan Olson wrote:
> To get it with the \, you might use:
>
> os.path.abspath(os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE'])
wrong!
the result is incorrect if the current directory is different from the
root.
>>> os.chdir("c:\\winxp")
>>> os.path.abspath(os.env
rtilley wrote:
> Carsten Haese wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason why os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE'] shouldn't work?
>
> I didn't know it was in os! It returns C: instead of C:\ like my method.
> Other than that, it seems to do the trick.
To get it with th
Atanas Banov wrote:
> using
>os.chdir('/')
>os.getcwd()
> is plain wrong in Windows.
>
> what it does is change the current directory to root of the CURRENT
> DRIVE (i.e. the drive of the directory where script was started from),
> not the system drive. for example, if current directory wa
m drive is d:, this will return c:\ and not d:\.
hence chdir doesnt do any good, you can do os.getcwd()[:3] with the
same success.
os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE'] is the right way to go.
btw it correctly returns just drive letter and colon, a drive name
doesnt include [back]slash
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Another hack:
drive = os.popen("echo %SYSTEMDRIVE%").readline().strip()
rtilley wrote:
> Is there a proper way to get this variable from Windows? I know it's in
> the registry, but I'd rather not go there. I could not find a CSIDL
> shell constant for it
Carsten Haese wrote:
> Is there a reason why os.environ['SYSTEMDRIVE'] shouldn't work?
>
> Hope this helps
I didn't know it was in os! It returns C: instead of C:\ like my method.
Other than that, it seems to do the trick.
Thank you!
Brad
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On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:07, Todd Whiteman wrote:
> Another hack:
> drive = os.popen("echo %SYSTEMDRIVE%").readline().strip()
>
> rtilley wrote:
> > Is there a proper way to get this variable from Windows? I know it's in
> > the registry, but I'd r
Is there a proper way to get this variable from Windows? I know it's in
the registry, but I'd rather not go there. I could not find a CSIDL
shell constant for it either. I've been doing this:
os.chdir('/')
sys_drive = os.getcwd()
print sys_drive
C:\
This seems too much of a hack and maybe not 1
