Any Python code for CD-R writing on a Windows box?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "David" == David Lees <abcdebl2nospammyyy at bellatlantic.net> writes:

    David> It would be neat to write short python programs for
    David> selectively writing files onto my CD-RW drive for backups
    David> on my Win98 box.  Is there any Python code for writing a
    David> file or directory onto a CD-R disc?


If you have a command line program that can do it, you can call the
program from python with, eg, os.system or os.popen

cdrecord and mkisofs are 2 excellent tools from the UNIX world that
you can use to do this.  I haven't used them under windows, but they
do run on windows (it may require cygwin, I'm not sure)

Here is an example script.  You may have to change the code a bit to
meet the particulars of your system, but it will give you the idea

import os, sys

tmpfile = 'temp.iso'  # could also use python's tempfile module
command = 'mkisofs -r -o %s %s ' % (tmpfile, ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
print 'Executing %s' % command
c1 = os.popen(command)
c1.close()

# remove dummy and update device number when all is well
command = 'cdrecord dev=1,0,0  -dummy %s' % tmpfile
print 'Executing %s' % command
c2 = os.popen(command)
c2.close()

os.remove(tmpfile)

You can do this without intervening tmp files on systems with piped
using stdin and stdout, to burn the file directly to the burner.  I
don't know if this will work under windows or not.


Good luck,
John Hunter