Is there a way to list all the available drive letters in python?

Question

More or less what it says on the tin: is there an (easy) way in Python to list all the currently in-use drive letters in a windows system?

(My google-fu seems to have let me down on this one.)

Related:

• Enumerating all available drive letters in Windows (C++ / Win32)

Answer 1

import win32api

drives = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
drives = drives.split('\000')[:-1]
print drives

Adapted from: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/4670

Answer 2

Without using any external libraries, if that matters to you:

import string
from ctypes import windll

def get_drives():
    drives = []
    bitmask = windll.kernel32.GetLogicalDrives()
    for letter in string.uppercase:
        if bitmask & 1:
            drives.append(letter)
        bitmask >>= 1

    return drives

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print get_drives()     # On my PC, this prints ['A', 'C', 'D', 'F', 'H']

Answer 3

Those look like better answers. Here's my hackish cruft

import os, re
re.findall(r"[A-Z]+:.*$",os.popen("mountvol /").read(),re.MULTILINE)

Answer 4

The Microsoft Script Repository includes this recipe which might help. I don't have a windows machine to test it, though, so I'm not sure if you want "Name", "System Name", "Volume Name", or maybe something else.