%SystemDrive%

Is there a proper way to get this variable from Windows? I know it's in the registry, but I'd rather not go there. I could not find a CSIDL shell constant for it either. I've been doing this:

os.chdir('/')
sys_drive = os.getcwd()
print sys_drive
C:\

This seems too much of a hack and maybe not 100% right all of the time. How could it be done better?
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