In message <vg3pqvqc9jy....@pepper.modeemi.fi>, Anssi Saari wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > >> The Linux kernel includes built-in support for something close to two >> dozen different partition formats, from the common ones like MS-DOS, >> Solaris, SGI, Ultrix, EFI and BSD on down. Why reinvent parts of that >> when you can get it all for free? > > Because for the common case it's simple and easy and one might learn > something interesting?
You consider it “interesting” to reinvent stuff that others have already done? > But can you really get all that for free, in python? in other words, > is there a python API for all that? The stuff in /proc/partitions > seems rather limited to me, although I have only vanilla partitions on > my computers. What more do you want? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
