format discs.

[Tim Roberts]

"Taka" <taka at net.hr> wrote:
>
>Let's presume you want to format a unix partition and that it is
>/dev/hda1.
>The do this:
>
>#!/bin/python
>
>import os
>partition = open ('/dev/hda1', 'w')
>
>for x in range(os.path.getsize('/dev/hda1'):
>	partition.write ('0')
>
>partition.close()

Without commenting on the advisability or efficiency of the algorithm, it
is worth pointing out that you probably wanted a binary zero:

       partition.write ('\0')

rather than an ASCII character.
-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.