Hi Jay pls excuse top post - Im actually doing this project in linux, but am wanting it to be cross platform. I definitley have to cater for win32 also. I was hoping that burried in sys or os or that there'd be some x platform module that did all that stuff for me
thnks for reply though glenn Jay wrote: > Well, in linux you can get a lot of info about where a file is based > upon where it lies in the file system. For example, if the folder the > file is located in resides in the /media or /mnt directories, then the > file is, barring a few rare circumstances, located upon a removable > medium of some sort. Once you get the name of that directory that is > right below /media or /mnt, then you can cross check the name in > /etc/fstab file. > > However, the contents of your post lead me to believe that you're > working in a win32 environment. That's a bit trickier. Things aren't > so simple. You could probably grab similar information from the full > path itself. For example, just getting the drive letter that the file > resides on could tell you a lot. Now, where you'd cross check that is > more of a mystery to me. I'd guess the registry? For an easier way of > accessing the registry, I believe that the wrapper pywin32 may be of > interest to you. It shouldn't be that hard considering that you'd only > be getting some information, not setting anything. > > If by chance we're talking about MacOS, I'm of almost no help. In the > case of MacOS X, it has a unix core, so I'd imagine that the method I > described for linux could probably be adapted. > > Jay > > glenn wrote: > > Hi > > can anyone tell me how given a directory or file path, I can > > pythonically tell if that item is on 'removable media', or sometype of > > vfs, the label of the media (or volume) and perhaps any other details > > about the media itself? > > thanks > > Glenn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
