Accessing Windows Network Share?

[frikk]

On Aug 16, 3:03 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/07, frikk <frik... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 16, 2:43 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/16/07, frikk <frik... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I previously posted about accessing SharePoint over the web. Well I
> > > > have since given up any easy means of doing this, since something else
> > > > has perked my interest.  Instead of going tohttp://sharepoint/site,
> > > > why not just access \\sharepoint\site\ directly?
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> > > > So my question is this - How do I access that network share?
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> > > > If I go to start -> run, and type in "\\SharPointServer\Site\Folder",
> > > > windows explorer will pop up with it.  I suppose I could have a little
> > > > batch script that python runs to map the drive to a local letter, like
> > > > J:, but this does not seem necessary.
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> > > > Suggestions?
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> > > > This does not work, for obvious reasons:
> > > > >>> import glob.glob
> > > > >>> glob.glob("\\\\server\\folder\\*")
> > > > []
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> > > I don't see whats "obvious" about this. Access to windows shares is
> > > handled by Windows in a VFS layer, and glob and all other Python file
> > > access works fine over them for me.- Hide quoted text -
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> > Haha ok, you're right its not obvious. Sorry for that.
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> > But that code does not work - should it?
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> > Do you have an example of glob working over a file share, not a
> > network mapped drive?
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> import glob
> glob.glob(r"\\localhost\c$\python25\libs\*")
> ['\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\bz2.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\libpython25.a',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\pyexpat.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\python25.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\select.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\unicodedata.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\winsound.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_bsddb.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_ctypes.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_ctypes_test.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_elementtree.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_hashlib.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_msi.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_socket.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_sqlite3.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_ssl.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_testcapi.lib',
> '\\\\localhost\\c$\\python25\\libs\\_tkinter.lib']
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> I do it all the time. I'd double check your slash escaping (consider
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I must have been doing it wrong.  Thanks! That works great!