I‘d like to write a Python program which first detects a new USB disk with Terminal on macOS, then returns me the full path to the stick.
I‘ve tried to implement it like that:
os.chdir(‘/Volumes‘)
#then do some listing
List = os.listdir()
But this returns me just
My_USB_Stick
Macintosh HD
I have no idea how to get the path of the connected drive, which excludes Macintosh HD…
Any Ideas ? Looking forward to hearing from you ;)
My_USB
One way to to it would be:
ls
command in pythonMacintosh HD
file.There is another easier way to implement the same. You could loop over the List
and add the current path (/Volumes/
) to the files/folders in the list. Here is an implementation of the same:
import os
os.chdir('/Volumes')
# then do some listing
List = os.listdir()
i = 0
while i < len(List):
if (List[i] == 'Macintosh HD'):
del List[i:i+1]
continue
else:
List[i] = '/Volumes/' + List[i]
i += 1
print(List)