Python: Get Mount Point on Windows or Linux

Question

I need a function to determine if a directory is a mount point for a drive. I found this code already which works well for linux:

def getmount(path):
  path          


        

Answer 1

Do you want to find the mount point or just determine if it is a mountpoint?

Regardless, as commented above, it is possible in WinXP to map a logical drive to a folder.

See here for details: http://www.modzone.dk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=278

I would try win32api.GetVolumeInformation

>>> import win32api
>>> win32api.GetVolumeInformation("C:\\")
    ('LABEL', 1280075370, 255, 459007, 'NTFS')
>>> win32api.GetVolumeInformation("D:\\")
    ('CD LABEL', 2137801086, 110, 524293, 'CDFS')
>>> win32api.GetVolumeInformation("C:\\TEST\\") # same as D:
    ('CD LABEL', 2137801086, 110, 524293, 'CDFS')
>>> win32api.GetVolumeInformation("\\\\servername\\share\\")
    ('LABEL', -994499922, 255, 11, 'NTFS')
>>> win32api.GetVolumeInformation("C:\\WINDOWS\\") # not a mount point
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "", line 1, in 
    pywintypes.error: (144, 'GetVolumeInformation', 'The directory is not a subdirectory of the root directory.')