On 4/2/2013 3:18 PM, Sven wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Python 2.7 with pyobjc on Lion and NSNotification center to > monitor any inserted USB volumes. This works fine. > > I've also got some ideas how to get a device's serial number, but these > involve just parsing all the USB devices ('system_profiler SPUSBDataType' > command). However I'd like to specifically query the inserted device only > (the one creating the notification) rather than checking the entire USB > device list. The latter seems a little inefficient and "wrong".
That would be useful to have as a portable function for all USB devices. Serial port devices are particularly annoying, because their port number is somewhat random when there's more than one, and changes on hot-plugging. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list