Is there a way to list all the available Windows' drives?

Question

Is there a 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)

A C++ equivalent: Enumerating all available drive letters in Windows

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']