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]> wrote: > 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'C:') > > or just leave it blank and the function will automatically use the > > rootPath of where the .py file resides? > > > Both have returned the correct result. > > The simple answer is: I'm not sure. If you experiment and find > something which works, just use it! > > Something which SickMonkey made me return to your question. > Are you trying to find the disk space available on a > different machine (possibly on several different machines)? > If so, then WMI is definitely your answer. You can > run -- from your machine -- one piece of code which > will attach to several different machines to give > you the answer. (as per Sick Monkey's later post). > > If I've read too much into your question, well nothing's > ever wasted on the internet. Here's some sample code > which uses the wmi module from: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html > > <code> > machines = ['mycomp', 'othercomp'] > > for machine in machines: > print "Machine:", machine > c = wmi.WMI (machine) > # only consider local fixed disks > for disk in c.Win32_LogicalDisk (DriveType=3): > print disk.Name, disk.FreeSpace > print > > </code> > > Yes, you could even write: > > for disk in wmi.WMI (machine).Win32_LogicaDisk (DriveType=3): > > but I'd find it a touch unwieldy. YMMV. > > HTH > TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
