On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 11:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > I am looking for Python code to open, read, write, close, > and make bootable the following: > CD > DVD > USB Drive
There will be no cross-platform way to do this. Certainly no python libraries. The closest thing you can get to cross-platform is to popen various, ported utilities to do the dirty work for you, such as mkisofs. This is the recommended way, actually. > > Can I just use open(), read(), write(), and close() for > these? And how do I make something bootable? > Is there a portable way to do this that works for both > windows XP/Vista and Linux? Nope. You have to build a file system and copy it to the DVD, CD or USB drive. This is absolutely OS-specific. Of course, from Linux you should be able to build a fat32 file system and make it boot-able (using OS tools like mkfs.vfat). But making a boot-able ext3 partition from Windows is impossible since the tools needed to make an ext3 file system do not exist on Windows. If you are sticking to ISO file systems like UDF or ISO9660, you can use various programs like mkisofs, dvd+rw-tools, and friends (which have been ported to Windows). This is the approach used by *all* Linux cd-writing applications, like k3b. > > Thanks in advance: > Michael Yanowitz > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
