[Tutor] getUncPath(mappedDrive)

[Tim Golden]

On 24/03/2012 20:13, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a function that takes a file path with a mapped drive
> (z:\blah) and returns the associated UNC path
> (\\server\share\ding\dang\dong\blah)? I looked in os.path, but it
> doesn't seem to have this. The link below seems to be a solution
> (code in the bottom of the page), but I can't install win32com.client
> in the office :-( Is there any built-in function?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2244767/python-check-network-map

There's nothing built-in. The easiest function to emulate
through ctypes is probably WNetGetConnection:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385453%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

(this is available from pywin32 via the win32wnet package
but I assume you can't install that either)

TJG