pyudev – pure Python libudev binding¶
pyudev 0.16.1 (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.