file system iteration

[Tim Golden]

[Rick]
| Searching for a file by name. Scanning for viruses. Etc. 
| There are lots 
| of legitimate reason to walk all paths from a central 
| starting point, no???

Well, to get you started, I think this is the kind
of thing you'll want. Uses ctypes, which is built-in
to Python 2.5 so presumably legit.

<code>
import ctypes
import string

GetDriveType = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDriveTypeA

for letter in string.uppercase:
  print letter, "=>", GetDriveType ("%s:" % letter)

</code>

You'll have to refer to 

http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685874.aspx

and various headers to get the values in question, but they
look quite straightforward at a glance.

TJG

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