free disk space

[Roger Burnham]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 07:36:36 GMT, prudek at my-deja.com wrote:

>How can I discover free disk space on a drive in Python (in Win98)? I
>can exec 'dir' and parse output, but is there a nicer way?
>
>--
>Milos Prudek

Milos,

Just had to do this yesterday:

def getFreeSpace(dir):
    """
    Given a directory, return the free space
    (mega bytes) on that drive.
    """
    import os, win32file
    drive = os.path.splitdrive(dir)[0] + os.sep
    fs = win32file.GetDiskFreeSpace(drive)
    fs = int((fs[0]*fs[1]*fs[2])/(1024.0*1024.0))
    return fs


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