how to get partition information of a hard disk with python

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <vg3pqvqc9jy.fsf at pepper.modeemi.fi>, Anssi Saari wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
> 
>> The Linux kernel includes built-in support for something close to two
>> dozen different partition formats, from the common ones like MS-DOS,
>> Solaris, SGI, Ultrix, EFI and BSD on down. Why reinvent parts of that
>> when you can get it all for free?
> 
> Because for the common case it's simple and easy and one might learn
> something interesting?

You consider it “interesting” to reinvent stuff that others have already 
done?

> But can you really get all that for free, in python? in other words,
> is there a python API for all that? The stuff in /proc/partitions
> seems rather limited to me, although I have only vanilla partitions on
> my computers.

What more do you want?