How to get/read Hard disk label / drive label

[Praveen]

I want to read individual disk label

for Hard disk (C: drive, D: drive disk label)
and
CD-ROM disk label

Please provide some pointer to the code or document.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rob Williscroft]

Praveen wrote in @h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:

I want to read individual disk label

for Hard disk (C: drive, D: drive disk label)
and
CD-ROM disk label

Please provide some pointer to the code or document.

You could use:

<url:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/win32api__
GetVolumeInformation_meth.html>

which will require:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

Or you can use this:

http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685899.aspx

with this:

http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-ctypes.html

which is built in to python 2.5

Rob.