Partition names with Python

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Erhan" == Erhan Ekici <erhan at uzem.itu.edu.tr> writes:

    Erhan> Hi, How do I get partition names (i.e. C:\ , D:\ ,E:\ on
    Erhan> windows, hda,hda1 , hda2 on Linux machines) using Python.

There is nothing to do this in the standard library as far as I know,
but it is fairly easy to parse the output of fdisk.  If you are
running as su

  #!/your/path/to/python2.2
  import os

  for line in os.popen('/sbin/fdisk -l').readlines():
      if line.find('/dev/') !=0: continue
      columns = line.split()
      print columns[0].split('/')[-1]


Should do it.  With a little work, you could modify this to work cross
platform if you have fdisk installed on your win32 machine.

JDH