Listing partitions (on win32)

[bonono at gmail.com]

Tim Golden wrote:
> bonono at gmail.com wrote:
> > Tim Golden wrote:
> > > Claude Henchoz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there any way of listing partitions on a (win32) computer without
> > > > using WMI?
> > >
> > > Not that this answers your question, but why _don't_ you
> > > want to use WMI?
> > >
> > > TJG
> >
> > >>> import wmi
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in -toplevel-
> >     import wmi
> > ImportError: No module named wmi
> > >>>
>
> It's quite possible to do WMI in Python without using
> the wmi module -- all the module does is to hide some
> slightly messy plumbing. But the OP doesn't suggest
> that he's unwilling to install anything, merely to *use*
> WMI. (Unless you _are_ the OP under a different alias).
>
> Just to make it plain: it's no skin off my nose at all. I
> don't get offended because someone doesn't want to
> use WMI. I'm merely curious as to whether it was
> because the wmi module was too hard, or whether
> the machines were Win9x or NT, where you have to
> go out of your way to install WMI, or whether there
> was some other reason.
>
I am not him, but just another data point(possibly reason) of why one
doesn't want to use it. It is not intended to be a post of "wmi suck".
In fact, when I first saw the post about wmi module, I immediate tried
to query my XP using it but once I saw the above, I gave up.