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importing downloaded usb module - kiyoshi7 - Apr-29-2018

Hi, I downloaded pywinusb from GitHub, but I can't remember how to import it. I unzipped it to a folder with a file I'm using to test my modifications. how can I import the downloaded module? I have pywinusb installed via pip but, I cant find the files I want to alter.

Also, I'm trying to communicate to a usb device I created, is there another usb module? preferable one that I don't have to install drivers since I'm using HID just because I don't need to create a diver and it's easier for users

RE: importing downloaded usb module - j.crater - Apr-29-2018

How do you mean you have downloaded and unzipped pywinusb, but also installed it by pip?
import pywinusb should work. Do you get some errors? If yes, post the full traceback in error tags.

RE: importing downloaded usb module - kiyoshi7 - Apr-29-2018

I have pywin usb installed but I want to alter it so I downloaded it and want to make my modifications. I only downloaded it cause I cant find where pip placed the module

RE: importing downloaded usb module - j.crater - Apr-29-2018

That would be in \Lib\site-packages location of your Python installation, or virtual environment, in case you are using it.

RE: importing downloaded usb module - kiyoshi7 - Apr-29-2018

Quote:That would be in \Lib\site-packages location of your Python installation, or virtual environment, in case you are using it

I tried looking for it there, and searching for pywinusb. the module works I just cant find it

edit: I found it, I think that because I have more than one version of python windows 10 didn't install the version I'm working on in C:python, but in Appdata

Thanks for helping

RE: importing downloaded usb module - snippsat - Apr-29-2018

It will be in \Lib\site-packages\pywinusb\hid
Virtual environment is now build into 3.6.

# Make enviroment                                                                   
E:\1                                                                 
λ python -m venv usb_env                                             

# Cd in                                                                     
E:\1                                                                 
λ cd usb_env                                                         
       
# Activate                                                              
E:\1\usb_env                                                         
λ E:\1\usb_env\Scripts\Activate                                      

# Now is this folder isolated and pip point to this folder
(usb_env) E:\1\usb_env                                               
λ pip -V                                                             
pip 9.0.1 from e:\1\usb_env\lib\site-packages (python 3.6)           
                                                                     
(usb_env) E:\1\usb_env                                               
λ pip install pywinusb                                               
Collecting pywinusb                                                  
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/38/b4/ecce4a3a0
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 895kB/s             
Installing collected packages: pywinusb                              
  Running setup.py install for pywinusb ... done                     
Successfully installed pywinusb-0.4.2

So now is all in usb_env folder.
Overview of module pdir
[Image: vBBkzr.jpg]

Clone source code to this folder.

(usb_env) E:\1\usb_env
λ git clone https://github.com/rene-aguirre/pywinusb.git
Cloning into 'pywinusb'...
remote: Counting objects: 799, done.
remote: Total 799 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 799Receiving objects:  96% (768/799)
Receiving objects: 100% (799/799), 218.60 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (489/489), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

So now is also source code in own pywinusb folder.
I also install ptpython then is easier to find modules/methods when type . it show all available.

(usb_env) E:\1\usb_env
λ ptpython
>>> import pywinusb.hid as hid

>>> hid.__file__
'e:\\1\\usb_env\\lib\\site-packages\\pywinusb\\hid\\__init__.py'