How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

[kevinliu23]

Just tried your solution Tim, worked like a charm. :)

It's great because I don't even have to worry about the computer name.
A question regarding the rootPath parameter...how would I be passing
it? Would I be passing it as...

   tuple = win32api.GetDiskFreeSpace(r'C:')
or just leave it blank and the function will automatically use the
rootPath of where the .py file resides?

Both have returned the correct result.

Kevin

On Feb 28, 4:24 pm, "kevinliu23" <kevinli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for the help guys. I got the code Sick Monkey provided
> to work on my computer. Now I"m more confused than ever though. :) I
> thought the only standard modules provided by Python are listed here:
>
> http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
>
> But it appears that there are other modules available to me without
> having to download third party code. Could someone point me to the
> documentation of these other modules such as win32com.client? Thanks
> everyone for your help. :)
>
> Also, how could I get the computer name? I would be running this code
> on another machine and don't want to change the computer name in the
> code every time I port it to another computer. Thanks!
>
> Kevin
>
> On Feb 28, 4:16 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > [... re getting free disk space ...]
>
> > Sick Monkey wrote:
> > > Here you are:
>
> > >  >>> from win32com.client import GetObject
> > >>>> wmiObj = GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\MGW01641\\root\\cimv2")
> > >>>> diskinfo = wmiObj.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk")
> > >>>> for disk in diskinfo:
> > > ...    print disk.Name, disk.FreeSpace
> > > ...
> > > A: None
> > > C: 16978259968
> > > D: None
>
> > Well it's not often someone beats me to a WMI
> > solution :) Just to be different, you can also
> > look at the GetDiskFreeSpace function in the
> > win32api module of the pywin32 extensions.
>
> > The doc says: """
> > tuple = GetDiskFreeSpace(rootPath)
>
> > Retrieves information about the specified disk, including the amount of
> > free space available.
>
> > Parameters
>
> > rootPath : string
>
> > Specifies the root directory of the disk to return information about. If
> > rootPath is None, the method uses the root of the current directory.
>
> > Win32 API References
>
> > Search for GetDiskFreeSpace at msdn, google or google groups.
>
> > Return Value
> > The return value is a tuple of 4 integers, containing the number of
> > sectors per cluster, the number of bytes per sector, the total number of
> > free clusters on the disk and the total number of clusters on the disk.
> > If the function fails, an error is returned.
> > """
>
> > TJG