using a USB HID device

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jeff Epler wrote:
> libusb is portable to Linux, BSD including OS X, and Windows.
> I don't know of a Python wrapper, however, and my experience using
> libusb on windows is limited.
> 
> http://libusb.sf.net
> http://libusb-win32.sf.net/

It looks like libusb, on Windows, installs its own kernel driver,
which generates devices named \\.\libusb*. So this is not exactly
a pure-python solution :-)

OTOH, it may well be that USB devices, on Windows, cannot be
accessed purely from user mode, and that you always need some
sort of kernel driver.

Regards,
Martin