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Re: Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX

From John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX
Date 2013-04-04 18:58 -0700
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On 4/2/2013 3:18 PM, Sven wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Python 2.7 with pyobjc on Lion and NSNotification center to
> monitor any inserted USB volumes. This works fine.
> 
> I've also got some ideas how to get a device's serial number, but these
> involve just parsing all the USB devices ('system_profiler SPUSBDataType'
> command). However I'd like to specifically query the inserted device only
> (the one creating the notification) rather than checking the entire USB
> device list. The latter seems a little inefficient and "wrong".

   That would be useful to have as a portable function for all USB
devices.  Serial port devices are particularly annoying, because their
port number is somewhat random when there's more than one, and changes
on hot-plugging.

				John Nagle

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Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX Sven <svenito@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 23:18 +0100
  Re: Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2013-04-04 18:58 -0700
    Re: Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-04-04 22:20 -0700
      Re: Getting USB volume serial number from inserted device on OSX Sven <svenito@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 14:23 +0100

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