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
It won't be trivial because one of the goals of the operating systems is to hide the differences between various types of storage devices and make them all look the same (i.e. a jump drive, a CD-ROM, a network volume are presented uniformly to the user as just another path in the file system). But you can probably use guesswork on unix OS's, as somebody above suggested, and examine the path. If the path contains common media mount points then that should give you a clue. On Windows you cannot easily know. For example if your file is on D:\file.txt, it is not immediatly obvious if D is a jumpdrive, a networked drive, a hard drive, or a CD-ROM. The only thing I can think of is to try to examine the Windows registry with the _winreg module. Here are the docs: http://docs.python.org/lib/module--winreg.html There might be a key burried in there some place that will tell you which drives are what type. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
