how on earth do i get a drive list?

[Peter Hansen]

"G. Willoughby" wrote:
> 
> how on earth do i get a drive list? i've been searching for a command to
> display a tuple or list containing all available drives, but i can't find
> it! is it just me or are the standard python docs quite confusing. oh well
> any ideas out there?

On Windows, with the win32all stuff installed:

>>> import win32api
>>> drives = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
>>> drives
'a:\\\x00c:\\\x00d:\\\x00e:\\\x00v:\\\x00'
>>> drives.split('\x00')[:-1]
['a:\\', 'c:\\', 'd:\\', 'e:\\', 'v:\\']

This is definitely not cross-platform, and I know nothing about the Windows
API so there are very likely much better ways to do this, but this one's
kind of cute... :)

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