drives in a file chooser

[Ken Seehof]

Well, there's always brute force...

>>> import os, string
>>> def GetDrives():
...  drives = []
...  for a in string.lowercase:
...   if os.path.exists('%s:/'%a):
...    drives.append('%s:'%a)
...  return drives
...
>>> GetDrives()
['a:', 'c:', 'd:', 'e:', 'i:', 'x:']

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Setzer" <dontspamsetzer at nwlink.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: drives in a file chooser


>
>     I don't think there's a way to do it from the os module, but if you've
> got the win32 extensions installed this should do it :
>
> from win32file import GetLogicalDrives
>
> def GetDrives() :
>     "Returns a list of valid drives on this system, in order"
>     drives = []
>     driveMask = GetLogicalDrives()
>     for i in range( 0, 31 ) :
>         if driveMask & ( 1 << i ) :
>             drives.append( chr( ord( 'a' ) + i ) )
>
>     return drives
>
> Matt Setzer
>
> "Volucris" <volucris at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3aecd342$0$39601$6e49188b at news.goldengate.net...
> > Is there a way to get a list of the drives available (on win32: c:, a:,
> b:,
> > d:, etc.)? Ultimately, I want to make a file chooser in a Tkinter app.
> > Desperatly I tried
> >
> >     os.listdir(os.path.abspath('c:\\..'))
> >
> > but that does nothing useful. Otherwise, I could just confine my users
to
> a
> > single drive and say it's a security feature.
> >
> > greg
> >
> >
>
>
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