[EMAIL PROTECTED] | When I want to uninstall my usb disk on windows, the | operating systems | sometimes tells me the device is being used by other program. But I | can't find which program is using it. Can I do this using python ?
This is really one of those questions that could better be rephrased: can I do this *without* using Python? By which I mean: there's nothing built into Python or its standard libraries which will determine which open program is holding which files open on your filesystem. I'm quite certain there exists some more or less brute-force technique for this in Windows in general, but you'd really have to find that, and then determine how to do it in Python. (Bit of Googling later...) I suggest you look at the Handle util from sysinternals.com (always a good place to start looking for these kind of things): http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/handle.html You can run it against a directory or a specific file and its output it fairly parseable. Example, where I have a python process holding open a "temp.tmp" file my c:\temp directory: <dump> C:\>handle c:\temp Handle v3.2 Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com cmd.exe pid: 4260 C: C:\temp python.exe pid: 5296 58: C:\temp\temp.tmp cmd.exe pid: 5232 94: C:\temp python.exe pid: 2672 94: C:\temp C:\> </dump> You could use the subprocess module (or its predecessors) to scan the output fairly easily, I imagine. What you with the process name / id is up to your needs, of course :) TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
