recording input from USB port and write to text file

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:

>>>>>> Allan <af2012 at gmail.com> (A) wrote:
> 
>>A> Hi! I'm fairly new to Python.  I understand the basics basics but I'm
>>A> been trying to write a simple python code that will let me read input
>>A> data (such as mouse movement) from my USB port and write it in a text
>>A> file and I am so lost.  Can anyone help or direct me to some
>>A> resources?  Thank you!
> 
> You could try http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusb/

As I said - this is more complicated as it appears. HID-devices will be
captured by the OS and can't be accessed by libusb then (with good reason -
otherwise writing a keylogger is something not even kernel-space is needed
anymore)

Diez