MediaPacker - Utility to help pack your DVDs and CDs to the brim

Media Packer is meant to solve the following problems.
1) Allow good-fit packing of DVDs, CDs with given set of directories/files.
2) Intention is to semi-automate (i.e. provide suggestions to users) or fully automate the process of packing backup media such as DVD, CDs.
3) To be developed in Python for portability and ease-of-extension

InProgress:
1) Display media space occupied by a folder structure (files and directories).
File Size code snippet,
>>> import os
>>> b= os.path.getsize("/path/isa_005.mp3")
>>> b
File I/O tutorial
>>> f = open( 'test.txt', 'at')
>>> f.writelines( str(b))
>>> f.close()
>>> f = open( 'test.txt', 'rt' )
>>> s = f.readlines()
>>> sDirectory Size Lister (Check out the comments at end of blog to get info on )

Pydirstat. pydirstat is a really handy cross-platform, command-line way to generate information about disk usage. http://developer.berlios.de/projects/pydirstat/

Future features:
1) Add catalog and search facility to uniquely identify each media, add tags for folders/files and user comments.
2) Allow collaboration and sharing of catalogs among friends to share useful files.
3) Possibly use bit-torrent protocol for the sharing??

To be released under GPL.

See Also:
MediaPacker sourceforge account