Tim & Paul, > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:07 -0500 > From: Paul Koning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: python-win32@python.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> ...And here's the diskpart line: > >> > >> subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' % > >> pdcName) > > Tim> In my own personal opinion, there's absolutely nothing wrong > Tim> with this. That's what the tool is there for, after all. Yes, > Tim> it would probably be possible for you to dig up the disk manager > Tim> APIs you need to do the same thing programmatically, but because > Tim> their use is obscure, they probably aren't going to be exposed > Tim> in the standard PyWin32 modules, and then you have the added > Tim> burden of error handling. > > I agree. If you do want to use an API rather than a subprocess, WMI > might serve. The biggest drawback of WMI is that the documentation is > partly nonexistent and, when it does exist, is of very low quality. > > On the other hand, the Python WMI module is quite nice. > > paul >
Well, that's good to know. I would like it to map the USB device to the next available drive letter and while the docs for diskpart claim that changing the assign command to the following works: assign letter I can't get my test script to work. Oh well...I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and hope that it doesn't clobber some other device. Thanks for the affirmations, guys. Mike _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
