[Pythonmac-SIG] file system encoding and type

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2008-07-28 um 15:25 schrieb David Hughes:

> Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>
>> How can I detect for some entry in "/Volumes" what kind of volume  
>> it is, e.g. Harddisk, USB stick, CD/DVD, and what encoding it uses?
>> For a CD/DVD cataloguing tool I need to detect removable disks.
>>
> I use the attached to extract information from the system_profiler  
> and diskutil commands. Maybe it can be adapted to return encodings  
> as well.


Thank you very much, but I was looking for a platform independent  
solution. Otherwise I can stay with "mount".


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Hraban
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