Determining the volume ID for a file/drive?

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
>    ...
> > Quick and dirty...:
> > 
> > import os
> > x = os.popen('C:\\')
> 
> OOPS -- TOO quick -- sorry, I meant os.popen('DIR C:\\')!!!

I was wondering what that did!

Cheers,
M.

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