Name/ID of removable Media: how?

[Claudio Grondi]

There are sure thousand ways
of doing it "with windoze".
Here one of them (NOT tested) in form
of code snippets you can rearrange
for your purpose:

import win32com.client
axFSO = win32com.client.Dispatch("Scripting.FileSystemObject") # SCRRUN.DLL
axLstDrives = axFSO.Drives

dctAXaxFSO_NumCodeAsKeyVsTypeDescrText = {
    0 : "unknown type of drive"
  , 1 : "drive with removable medium (e.g. Floppy)"
  , 2 : "fixed drive (e.g. harddisk)"
  , 3 : "remote (i.e. network) drive"
  , 4 : "CD-ROM drive"
  , 5 : "RAM-Disk drive"
}

lstdriveLetterOFonSYSTstorageDevice = []
lstdriveTypeOFonSYSTstorageDevice = []

for axDrive in axLstDrives:
  if(axDrive.IsReady): # checks if a CD is inserted
    lstdriveLetterOFonSYSTstorageDevice.append(
      axDrive.DriveLetter.encode()
    )
    lstdriveTypeOFonSYSTstorageDevice.append(
      dctAXaxFSO_NumCodeAsKeyVsTypeDescrText[axDrive.DriveType]
    )
    # axDrive.SerialNumber
    # axDrive.VolumeName.encode()
    # for more of this kind just check out e.g. in the by Microsoft
    # free available JScript tutorial the chapter
    # "FileSystemObject Sample Code"
  #:if
#:for

Hope this helps.

Claudio



"Heiko Selber" <heiko.selber at siemens.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:d42lho$fbf$1 at news.mch.sbs.de...
> I am trying to find out (using Python under windows) the name of a CD that
> is currently in the drive specified by a path name.
>
> And while I am at it, I'd also like to know whether the specified drive
> contains a CD at all, and whether the drive is actually a CD drive.
>
> AFAIK, Python doesn't provide a way to do it, and a search in the web
> yielded only soutions for Linux.
>
> Can anyone show me a solution that works with windoze?
>
> TIA,
>
> Heiko
>
>