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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
