Accessing a USB Device?

[Josef Meile]

Sory for the early reply. Now I think I know why it doesn't works. From the
readme I saw:

"But be aware that the (USB) device file disappears as soon as you unplug
the USB
adapter."

So I guess it doesn't recognize the port if you don't have anything
connected to it
(Serial ports are listed even if nothing is connected to them).

First I have to get the cables, then if it still doesn't work, I will reply
again.

Thanks,
Josef


"Josef Meile" <jmeile at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3f8d8ef0$1 at pfaff2.ethz.ch...
> > > I have a MP3 and I want to access the songs in them.  I was wondering
> > > if Python could help me do that.  I understand that this can be done
> > > using Linux by mountig it as a file system, but I am not on Linux and
> > > this is mainly for a Windows platform.  Can anyone shed some light?
> > I think it's configured just like a serial port. If I'm right try
> pyserial.
>
> I'm also interested, but instead of an MP3 device, I want to connect two
> PCs. The problem is that one of the PCs has only a serial port, which must
> be
> used by another application. However, it has lots of USB ports, so I could
> use
> either one USB adapter to RS-232 or a USB to USB cable. As suggested in a
> message from this newsgroup, I tried COM3, which was supposed to be the
usb
> port, but it fails, it shows:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\serial\serialwin32.py", line 70, in
> __init__
>     raise serialutil.SerialException, "could not open port: %s" %
>     msg serial.serialutil.SerialException: could not open port:
>     (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
>
> Then I tried the scan example from the pyserial site, but it only shows:
> (0) COM1
> (1) COM2
>
> So I guess it's either not possible or you have to do something else.
>
> Does anybody have a clue?
>
> Thanks in advanced,
> Josef
>
>