pyudev – pure Python libudev binding

pyudev 0.16 (Changelog, installation)

pyudev is a LGPL licensed, 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 ask questions about usage and development of pyudev to the mailing list at pyudev@librelist.com hosted by librelist.com. To subscribe to this list, send a mail to pyudev@librelist.com and reply to the confirmation email. To unsubscribe again, write to pyudev-unsubscribe@librelist.com and reply to the configuration mail. Past discussions are available in the list archives.

Please report issues and bugs 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.

Other reading

Project Versions

pyudev 0.16

Install

  • pip install pyudev

Links

Support

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