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How to get usb serial number python


Ive been searching around for a little while and this is winding me up... This was easy in C# :/

Anyways.. I found this code, which is the closest i got, but i suck at Regular Expressions, so if someone could narrow that down for me so it isolates only the device ID's for each of the devices, then that would be awesome! Anyways, here's the code:

import re
import subprocess

device_re = re.compile("Bus\s+(?P<bus>\d+)\s+Device\s+(?P<device>\d+).+ID\s(?P<id>    \w+:\w+)\s(?P<tag>.+)$", re.I)
df = subprocess.check_output("lsusb", shell=True)
devices = []
for i in df.split('\n'):
    if i:
        info = device_re.match(i)
        if info:
            dinfo = info.groupdict()
            dinfo['device'] = '/dev/bus/usb/%s/%s' % (dinfo.pop('bus'),       dinfo.pop('device'))
            devices.append(dinfo)
print devices

Solution

  • The code below gives you only the device ids.

    import pprint
    import subprocess
    
    df = subprocess.check_output('lsusb', shell=True)
    device_ids = []
    for line in filter(lambda s: s.startswith('Bus'), df.split('\n')):
        businfo, id, _ = line.split(':')
        id = id.split()[1]
        device_ids.append(id)
    
    pprint.pprint(device_ids)