Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread kevinliu23
Thanks Tim, I only need to run the get hard drive space function on one drive for one machine so I'll stick to GetDiskFreeSpace. If I need to expand this feature to multiple harddrives/machines, I'll be sure to come back to this thread. :) Kevin On Mar 1, 4:17 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HI, > > I am new to Python and wanted to know how to check for the remaining > disk space on my Windows machine using Python? I was thinking of using > the command line "dir" and trying to extract the output from there. > But I'm not sure how to extract command line stri

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:54:53 -0300, kevinliu23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > It's great because I don't even have to worry about the computer name. > A question regarding the rootPath parameter...how would I be passing > it? Would I be passing it as... > >tuple = win32api.GetDiskFreeSpace(

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
kevinliu23 wrote: > Just tried your solution Tim, worked like a charm. :) > > It's great because I don't even have to worry about the computer name. > A question regarding the rootPath parameter...how would I be passing > it? Would I be passing it as... > >tuple = win32api.GetDiskFreeSpace(r'

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread kevinliu23
H, right now...I'm doing multiplication on the index values returned by GetDiskFreeSpace. According to the documentation... tuple[0]: sectors per cluster tuple[1]: number of bytes per sector tuple[2]: total number of free clusters tuple[3]: total number of clusters on the disk So I'm multiply

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Jerry Hill
On 2/28/07, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well it's not often someone beats me to a WMI > solution :) Just to be different, you can also > look at the GetDiskFreeSpace function in the > win32api module of the pywin32 extensions. The MSDN page for that function warns: "The GetDiskFreeSpac

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
kevinliu23 wrote: > Thanks so much for the help guys. I got the code Sick Monkey provided > to work on my computer. Now I"m more confused than ever though. :) I > thought the only standard modules provided by Python are listed here: > > http://docs.python.org/modindex.html > > But it appears that

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread kevinliu23
Just tried your solution Tim, worked like a charm. :) It's great because I don't even have to worry about the computer name. A question regarding the rootPath parameter...how would I be passing it? Would I be passing it as... tuple = win32api.GetDiskFreeSpace(r'C:') or just leave it blank and

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread kevinliu23
Thanks so much for the help guys. I got the code Sick Monkey provided to work on my computer. Now I"m more confused than ever though. :) I thought the only standard modules provided by Python are listed here: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html But it appears that there are other modules availab

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
[... re getting free disk space ...] Sick Monkey wrote: > Here you are: > > >>> from win32com.client import GetObject wmiObj = GetObject("winmgmts:MGW01641\\root\\cimv2") diskinfo = wmiObj.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk") for disk in diskinfo: > ...print disk.N

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Sick Monkey
Sorry, I forgot to make a change. You will need to change "COMPUTER_NAME" ~~~ >>> from win32com.client import GetObject wmiObj = GetObject("winmgmts:COMPUTER_NAME\\root\\cimv2") diskinfo = wmiObj.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk") for disk in dis

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Sick Monkey
Here you are: >>> from win32com.client import GetObject wmiObj = GetObject("winmgmts:MGW01641\\root\\cimv2") diskinfo = wmiObj.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk") for disk in diskinfo: ...print disk.Name, disk.FreeSpace ... A: None C: 16978259968 D: None On 28 Feb 2007 12:2

How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread kevinliu23
HI, I am new to Python and wanted to know how to check for the remaining disk space on my Windows machine using Python? I was thinking of using the command line "dir" and trying to extract the output from there. But I'm not sure how to extract command line strings using Python either. Anyway help