Formatting device from a script on Windows

2006-09-19 Thread volcano
Hello, folks! Script I am creating has to format a device - USB flash drive. I have tried using regular DOS format through os.system - did not work well, because DOS format requires input from user. And the script should run without user interference. I have taken a look at ActivePython win32...

Re: Formatting device from a script on Windows

2006-09-19 Thread weir
this may help, you need ctypes module. ## from ctypes import * fm = windll.LoadLibrary('fmifs.dll') def myFmtCallback(command, modifier, arg): print command return 1# TRUE FMT_CB_FUNC = WINFUNCTYPE(c_int, c_int, c_int, c_void_p) FMIFS_HARDDISK = 0x0C

Re: Formatting device from a script on Windows

2006-09-19 Thread volcano
weir wrote: this may help, you need ctypes module. ## from ctypes import * fm = windll.LoadLibrary('fmifs.dll') def myFmtCallback(command, modifier, arg): print command return 1 # TRUE FMT_CB_FUNC = WINFUNCTYPE(c_int, c_int, c_int, c_void_p)

Re: Formatting device from a script on Windows

2006-09-19 Thread volcano
OK, it worked. Obviosly, quick format was a bad choice. Thanks a lot for your help! Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list