How to retrieve the volume name or drive letter from a Windows path using the path package?

To retrieve the volume name or drive letter from a Windows path using the path module in Python, you can use the pathlib module which provides an object-oriented interface to filesystem paths.

Here's an example of how to retrieve the volume name or drive letter from a Windows path using the pathlib module:

from pathlib import PurePath

# Windows path
windows_path = r'C:\Users\Username\Documents\file.txt'

# Create a PurePath object from the Windows path
path_object = PurePath(windows_path)

# Retrieve the volume name or drive letter
drive_letter = path_object.drive

print(f"Volume Name/Drive Letter: {drive_letter}")

In the above example, we import the PurePath class from the pathlib module. The PurePath class is capable of working with both Windows and POSIX paths.

We then create a PurePath object called path_object using the Windows path. The path_object.drive attribute retrieves the drive letter or volume name from the path.

Finally, we print the retrieved volume name or drive letter.

Note: The drive attribute returns an empty string if the path is not a Windows path or if the drive letter is not available in the path.