Pyusb on windows - no backend available

Question

I\'m trying to have my python application interface with an NFC device via USB. The best option seems to be pyusb, but I can\'t get it to connect to the libusb backend. I ke

Answer 1

I had the same problem with Windows 10, both Python 2.7.16 and Python 3.7.2. I installed libusb (through python -m pip install libusb ) but the error message remained. Also, the advice above about installing libusb-win32 did not work for me; neither of the 2 links (original post and @beebek's answer) existed.

What did work, however, is the comment by @user1495323 : I copied libusb-1.0.dll from C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\libusb\_platform\_windows\x64\ to C:\Windows\System32\