python-scsi is a SCSI initiator for python. It contains python classes to create and send SCSI commands to devices accessible via:

• SGIO: /dev/sg* devices using ioctl(SG_IO) Only available for Linux

• iSCSI: iscsi://// Available on all platforms which have libiscsi-python See https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi-python

These classes also provide interfaces to marshall/unmarshall both CDBs as well as DATA-IN/OUT buffers.

Python-scsi is distributed under LGPLv2.1 Please see the LICENSE file for the full license text.

The module is hosted at https://github.com/rosjat/python-scsi

You can use git to checkout the latest version of the source code using:

$ git clone git@github.com:rosjat/python-scsi.git

It is also available as a downloadable zip archive from:

https://github.com/rosjat/python-scsi/archive/master.zip 

This module depends on libiscsi and SWIG libraries. You must first install these libraries before you can build this module. In debian families, you can install these dependencies via:

$ apt install swig libiscsi-dev

Building the module:

$ python setup.py build

Installing the module:

$ python setup.py install

The tests directory contain unit tests for python-scsi. To run the tests:

$ cd tests $ make

The tools directory contains example programs written against the python-scsi API.

An example tool to send INQUIRY commands to a device.

An example tool to operate a SCSI media changer. Similar to, but not as advanced as, the 'mtx' utility.

A mailinglist for python-scsi is available at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-scsi