Accessing Windows Network Share?

[Chris Mellon]

On 8/16/07, frikk <frikker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > > So my question is this - How do I access that network share?
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > > 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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> > - Show 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?
>
> 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']



I do it all the time. I'd double check your slash escaping (consider
using r'') and pathnames.