finding mount points

[John Clonts]

Suchandra Thapa wrote:
> 
>     Is there any way to find the mount point of a filesystem given
> the path to a file within the file system?  Using os.path.ismount
> lets you determine if a path is a mount point but is there any function
> that returns something like /mnt/cdrom if you give it a path like
> /mnt/cdrom/foo/bar.txt?
> 
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Suchandra S. Thapa
> s-thapa at uchicago.edu
> 
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Python 1.3 (Sep 10 1996)  [GCC 2.7.2]
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import posixpath
>>> posixpath.ismount("/")
1
>>> posixpath.ismount("/mnt")
0
>>> posixpath.ismount("/mnt/dosd")
1
>>> posixpath.ismount("/home")
1
>>> posixpath.ismount("/home/john")
0
>>> 

Is this what you wanted?

Cheers,
John