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
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)