From: Michael Kelly <mkelly2002NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2002-01-02T12:25:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30024] Re: How to check free diskspace?

On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 22:11:06 GMT, ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil
Tomson) wrote:

>Sounds like a good candidate for a module to convert to Ruby.
>But how does it handle drive letters on Windows vs mount points on Unix?

That's still a weak point AFAIK.  From what I've seen the
assumption is that '/' root is equivalent to "C:\" 

Still, there's an attempt to use portable semantics
and if they come up with a solution to the drive
letter issue that would be a big improvement.

At least you don't find yourself doing stuff like
if last letter in path <> '\\' then path += '\\'
path += filename.

You just do
fname = os.path.join(path, filename)
and join deals with whether or not there's
a trailing dir separator etc..

At any rate the os.path modules are all supplied
as source so you could probably get some good
ideas for doing it in Ruby and make some needed
enhancements.  Maybe if you come up with a
solution to the filesystem root issue it will percolate
back to Python too. :)


Mike

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