Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:
> glenn wrote:
> > Hi
> > can anyone tell me how given a directory or file path, I can
> > pythonically tell if that item is on 'removable media', or sometype of
> > vfs, the label of the media (or volume) and perhaps any other details
> > about the media itself?
> > thanks
>
> As soon as you ask for "cross platform" and something that is
> device/OS specific... you have conflict.
>
> From the win32 extensions:
>
> win32file.GetDriveType
> int = GetDriveType()
>
> Determines whether a disk drive is a removable, fixed, CD-ROM, RAM disk,
> or network drive.
>
> R
Dennis is absolutely right. The reason you won't find a method in the
standard libraries for doing this task specifically is because python
aims to by cross-platform. If it were to support a method that worked
in the way you describe specifically for Windows, that would
essentially break python's
glenn wrote:
> Hi
> can anyone tell me how given a directory or file path, I can
> pythonically tell if that item is on 'removable media', or sometype of
> vfs, the label of the media (or volume) and perhaps any other details
> about the media itself?
> thanks
> Glenn
It won't be trivial because
glenn wrote:
> Hi Jay
> pls excuse top post - Im actually doing this project in linux, but am
> wanting it to be cross platform. I definitley have to cater for win32
> also. I was hoping that burried in sys or os or that there'd be some x
> platform module that did all that stuff for me
>
Thin
Hi Jay
pls excuse top post - Im actually doing this project in linux, but am
wanting it to be cross platform. I definitley have to cater for win32
also. I was hoping that burried in sys or os or that there'd be some x
platform module that did all that stuff for me
thnks for reply though
glenn
J
Well, in linux you can get a lot of info about where a file is based
upon where it lies in the file system. For example, if the folder the
file is located in resides in the /media or /mnt directories, then the
file is, barring a few rare circumstances, located upon a removable
medium of some sort.
