Dennis is absolutely right. The reason you won't find a method in the standard libraries for doing this task specifically is because python aims to by cross-platform. If it were to support a method that worked in the way you describe specifically for Windows, that would essentially break python's cross-platform compatibility. It would create a method that simply wouldn't work on two of the three major operating systems. Sorry.
You could write a method or series of methods that does the task you're describing and have the first method in the chain detect what operating system it is running on (which I believe is possible through the standard library) and route the request to the appropriate OS-specific method. Just a thought. Jay Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 28 Sep 2006 23:23:23 -0700, "glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > 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 > > As soon as you ask for "cross platform" and something that is > device/OS specific... you have conflict. > > From the win32 extensions: > > win32file.GetDriveType > int = GetDriveType() > > Determines whether a disk drive is a removable, fixed, CD-ROM, RAM disk, > or network drive. > > Return Value > The result is one of the DRIVE_* constants. > > I suspect Linux would require checking parameters in the fstab file. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
