mtp

Accessing the filesystem of MTP devices (Smartphones, MP3-Player, etc.) on Windows or Linux with python.

In the mtp directory there are three modules.

• win_access.py
• linux_access.py
• dialog.py

For detailed description see site directory

Tested with:

• Python 3.12 and above
• comptypes 1.4.10
• Windows 10 / 11
• Linux Mint, Zorin

win_access.py

This module implements the access to the Windows WPD functions to read and write MTP devices like smartphones, tablets. etc.

linux_access.py

This module implements the access to read and write MTP devices like smartphones, tablets. etc. from Linux. Only GNOME based systems are supported due to kio-fuse on KDE doesn't support the mtp protocol and the Python bindings for KIO don't exist yet.

dialog.py

dialog.py implements a directory searcher in tkinter that shows the attached MTP devices and the directories on them.

Changelog

• 1.3.0
  • Eleminated the need for a programm restart after first use of the comtypes library and modifying the generated wpd access files. This requires that you use comtypes 1.4.10 or newer.
  • Updated documentation
• 1.2.0
  • Access MTP devices from Linux
• 1.0.2
  • Fixed a bug when an MTP device doesn't have a userfriendly name
• 1.0.1
  • Fixed crash when during walk a directory is deleted.
  • Fixed full_filename for files was not set.