Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 9 Jul 2006 11:14:25 -0700, "John Hicken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > Anyway, there are two sorts of functions that could be useful. > > 1) A function that gives the size of a hard drive (or other drive, in > > this case the mp3 player itself), and/or the space remaining. > > Presuming the device shows up as a disk device in Windows... From > the win32api (ActiveState) help file: > > win32file.GetDiskFreeSpaceEx > long, long, long = GetDiskFreeSpaceEx(rootPathName) > > Determines the free space on a device. > > > Parameters > > rootPathName : PyUnicode > > address of root path > > Return Value > The result is a tuple of long integers: > > Items > > [0] long integer : freeBytes > > The total number of free bytes on the disk that are available to the > user associated with the calling thread. > > [1] long integer : totalBytes > > The total number of bytes on the disk that are available to the user > associated with the calling thread. Windows 2000: If per-user quotas are > in use, this value may be less than the total number of bytes on the > disk. > > [2] long integer : totalFreeBytes > > The total number of free bytes on the disk. > > > > 2)A function/functions to read the ID tags of an MP3 file. > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=python+mp3+ID+tag&btnG=Google+Search > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/
Thanks for the help. As you gathered, the mp3 player just appears as a hard drive, and the GetDiskFreeSpaceEx function does exactly what I want. Also, the first id tag program for python from the google seach, id3reader, seems to match what I want, as I won't need to alter the ID3 tags. Thanks John Hicken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
