# Python script to search the udev file system for devices # Copyright (C) 2005 Tim Blechmann # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to # the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # # $Id: find_hid.py,v 1.1 2005-12-04 18:11:08 timblech Exp $ # from os import popen, listdir def find (*args): name = "" for token in args: name+=" " + str(token) name = name.strip() events = filter(lambda x: "event" in x, listdir('/sys/class/input/')) for event in events: pipe = popen('udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/input/%s' % event) line = pipe.readline() while line: if name in line: print event return float(event.strip("event")) line = pipe.readline() pipe.close() return -1