Question

I’m theorizing of a project where my python script
looks at filesystem(s) on the machine running the script
but also reports back on the filesystem(s) of devices
that it mounts, thumb drives, mobile devices, etc.

Is anyone aware of the a BIF in python3 that would looks at endianness and filesystem.

Finally, I want to make a loop that looks at what storage devices are mounted, but I’m not sure how/whre to access that on OSX or Linux (fstab on linux?) and see what is currently mounted and if that changes. If Fstab was the correct file, would I constantly sort through it or should I just periodically open it and compare it against a file object?
I’m still very new at programming, so please pardon any newbie oversights.

Thanks

Answer 1

For the endianness of the platform:

>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.byteorder)
little