Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > 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.
ok - thanks - will look at that - Any one know what a Mac approach might be? can I expect that playing anything I write with fstab or `mount` will work on OSX?, or anyother BSD for that matter? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
