Automatically mount USB drive in python script

auto_mount_usb.py

import commands

# ASSUMED THAT THIS COMMAND HAS ALREADY BEEN RUN
# sudo mkdir /mnt/usb_stick

MOUNT_DIR = "/mnt/usb_stick"

def run_command(command):
    # start = time.time()
    ret_code, output = commands.getstatusoutput(command)
    if ret_code == 1:
        raise Exception("FAILED: %s" % command)
    # end = time.time()
    # print "Finished in %s seconds" % (end - start)
    return output.splitlines() 


def uuid_from_line(line):
    start_str = "UUID=\""
    example_uuid = "6784-3407"
    uuid_start = line.index(start_str) + len(start_str)
    uuid_end = uuid_start + len(example_uuid)
    return line[uuid_start: uuid_end]

output = run_command("blkid | grep LABEL | grep -v boot")
# ['/dev/sda1: LABEL="KINGSTON" UUID="6784-3407" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="459720e1-01"']
for usb_device in output:
    command = "mount --uuid %s %s" % (uuid_from_line(usb_device), MOUNT_DIR)
    run_command(command)
    break

Fantastic code!!!!!! Congrats.

Thanks for this code man!!! Im working on a project to use USB as a syncronization medium between two RaspberryPi NAS servers. Im looking to not use the internet to sync them due to Data cap on the internet transfer for one of the locations.

Ill be sure to reference your code in my GitHub Project!

Hello, I also want to mount the USB automatically but in this code, I m getting stuck at line number 25, run_command need an attribute.. klindly explain me that line or help in this regard. thanks in advance