Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

On 2024-08-19 10:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:37:39 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

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And single drive letters?

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They are dozens characters long actually, if you mean the device names.

Drive names are only single letters. You’re not talking about
reserved
file names, are you?

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No, I am talking about proper file paths under Windows. Letters is a
DOS layer on top of it. E.g. see QueryDosDeviceW call.

OK, I tried a test program that invokes QueryDosDeviceW() on L"C:".
The result was "\Device\HarddiskVolume4".  (That's not a C string
literal.  It contains two single backslash characters.)

What can I do with that string?  In what sense is it more "official"
than "C:", or "Acer": (the volume's label), or "B64F-C8F7" (the
volume's serial number)?

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