List of disk drives on Windows?

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 20, 3:43 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Mike Driscoll schrieb:
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> > On May 20, 2:45 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> >> Bob Greschke wrote:
> >>> This MUST have been asked before, but I can't seem to Google the right
> >>> thing.  How can I get a list of drives on a Windows box, like ["C:\",
> >>> "D:\"], like I can if I do something like listdir("/Volumes") on a Mac?
> >> A couple of options to get the ball rolling:
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> >> 1) win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
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> > I gave this a go to see how it worked and ti gave me this:
>
> > 'A:\\\x00C:\\\x00D:\\\x00G:\\\x00I:\\\x00L:\\\x00P:\\\x00Q:\\\x00R:\\
> > \x00U:\\\x00X:\\\x00Y:\\\x00Z:\\\x00'
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> > Not exactly what I expected. Do I have to parse out the "\\\x00"
> > myself or is there an information level switch I should add?
>
> The data is separated by NUL bytes. Split it with \x00 and you'll get a
> list of drives:
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> "A:\\\x00C:\\\x00D:\\\x00G:\\\x00I:\\\x00L:\\\x00P:\\\x00Q:\\\x00R:\\\x00U:\\\x00X:\\\x00Y:\\\x00Z:\\\x00".split("\x00")
> ['A:\\', 'C:\\', 'D:\\', 'G:\\', 'I:\\', 'L:\\', 'P:\\', 'Q:\\', 'R:\\',
> 'U:\\', 'X:\\', 'Y:\\', 'Z:\\', '']
>
> Christian

Yeah, I noticed that. I just thought that was a weird piece of info
for the call to return.

Mike