Finding Volume Label of a usb mass storage device using python

Question

Could someone please tell me how I could obtain a usb mass storage device's volume label(the name displayed in the explorer, not the device name::/dev/sdX) using python? HAL has deprecated so please don't suggest it as an option.

EDIT: Is there a way to do it using pyudev or pyusb??

Answer 1

If you don't want to use HAL you could do it by calling a subprocess .

import subprocess

mounts = {}

for line in subprocess.check_output(['mount', '-l']).split('\n'):
    parts = line.split(' ')
    if len(parts) > 2:
        mounts[parts[2]] = parts[0]

print mounts