Getting friendly device names in python

Question

I have an 2-port signal relay connected to my computer via a USB serial interface. Using the pyserial module I can control these relays with ease. However, this is based on

Answer 1

As far as Windows goes, you could scan the registry:

import _winreg as reg
from itertools import count

key = reg.OpenKey(reg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'HARDWARE\\DEVICEMAP\\SERIALCOMM')
try:
    for i in count():
        device, port = reg.EnumValue(key, i)[:2]
        print device, port
except WindowsError:
    pass