find network drives, win

[Gerhard Häring]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:51:10PM +0000, Marcus Stojek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> under windows I have to find out for a given path whether the drive is local
> or a network drive (is "mounted" the right word for this?)
> I tried:
> -----------------------------------------------
> import string
> import os.path
> [...]

I think you cannot find that out with the standard Python libraries. I propose
you get the ActivePython distribution from ActiveState or install their
Windows-Extensions, named win32all on top of your existing Python installation.

Then, check out the win32file module, and especially the GetDriveType()
function there.

Btw. the Windows extensions are *very* useful on Windows. They give you access
to a large part of the Windows API and you can use them to access most ActiveX
controls and do COM-automation of applications, such as MS Excel.

Gerhard
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