Tim Golden wrote in news:mailman.119.1160403292.11739.python-
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> [Rick]
>| Searching for a file by name. Scanning for viruses.
> Etc.
>| There are lots
>| of legitimate reason to walk all paths from a centra
> l
>| starting point, no???
>
> Well, to get you started, I think this is the kind
> of thing you'll want. Uses ctypes, which is built-in
> to Python 2.5 so presumably legit.
>
> <code>
> import ctypes
> import string
>
> GetDriveType = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDriveTypeA
>
> for letter in string.uppercase:
> print letter, "=>", GetDriveType ("%s:" % letter)
>
> </code>
>
> You'll have to refer to
>
> http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685874.aspx
>
> and various headers to get the values in question, but they
> look quite straightforward at a glance.
>
These seem to map when tested on my system:
import ctypes
DRIVE_TYPE_MAP = dict( enumerate ( """\
DRIVE_UNKNOWN
DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR
DRIVE_REMOVABLE
DRIVE_FIXED
DRIVE_REMOTE
DRIVE_CDROM
DRIVE_RAMDISK
""".split()
))
## if you need the constants ...
for i, name in DRIVE_TYPE_MAP.iteritems():
exec( "%s = %d" %( name, i) )
GetDriveTypeW = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDriveTypeW
for i in range( ord( 'A' ), 1 + ord('Z') ):
path = u"%c:\\" % chr( i )
print path, DRIVE_TYPE_MAP[ GetDriveTypeW( path ) ]
Rob.
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