pyudev – pure Python libudev binding
pyudev 0.17 (Changelog, installation)
pyudev is a LGPL licenced, pure Python 2/3 binding to
libudev, the device and hardware management and information library of Linux.
Almost the complete libudev functionality is exposed. You can:
- Enumerate devices, filtered by specific criteria (pyudev.Context)
- Query device information, properties and attributes,
- Monitor devices, both synchronously and asynchronously with background
threads, or within the event loops of Qt (pyudev.pyqt4,
pyudev.pyside), glib (pyudev.glib) and wxPython
(pyudev.wx).
Documentation
Thanks to the power of libudev, usage of pyudev is very simple. Getting the
labels of all partitions just takes a few lines:
>>> import pyudev
>>> context = pyudev.Context()
>>> for device in context.list_devices(subsystem='block', DEVTYPE='partition'):
... print(device.get('ID_FS_LABEL', 'unlabeled partition'))
...
boot
swap
system
A user guide gives an introduction into common operations and concepts of
pyudev, the API documentation provides a detailed reference:
Support
Please report issues, bugs and questions to the issue tracker, but respect
the following guidelines:
- Check that the issue has not already been reported.
- Check that the issue is not already fixed in the master branch.
- Open issues with clear title and a detailed description in grammatically
correct, complete sentences.
- Include the Python version and the udev version (see udevadm --version) in
the description of your issue.
Development
The source code is hosted on GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/lunaryorn/pyudev.git
If you want to contribute to pyudev, please read the guidelines for
contributions and the testsuite documentation.