Logical Drive Enumeration

This example shows how to query the logical drives attached to the computer using System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher. (From a blog entry by Steve Gilham.)

import clr clr.AddReference("System.Management") import System from System.Management import SelectQuery, ManagementObjectSearcher

def getLogicalDrives: logicalDrives = [] DiskSearch = ManagementObjectSearcher(SelectQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk")) try: moDiskCollection = DiskSearch.Get try: for mo in moDiskCollection: logicalDrives.append(mo["Name"]) mo.Dispose finally: moDiskCollection.Dispose finally: DiskSearch.Dispose return logicalDrives if __name__ == "__main__": print getLogicalDrives

Which when run, gives something like:

['C:', 'D:', 'E:', 'F:', 'G:', 'H:', 'I:', 'J:', 'K:', 'L:', 'N:']

The ManagementObjectSearcher is a powerful object, the trick is knowing which query to provide...

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