[Pythonmac-SIG] file system encoding and type

David Hughes dfh at forestfield.co.uk
Mon Jul 28 15:25:40 CEST 2008


Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> How can I detect for some entry in "/Volumes" what kind of volume it 
> is, e.g. Harddisk, USB stick, CD/DVD, and what encoding it uses?
> For a CD/DVD cataloguing tool I need to detect removable disks.
>
I use the attached to extract information from the system_profiler and 
diskutil commands. Maybe it can be adapted to return encodings as well.

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Regards,

David Hughes
Forestfield Software
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