Is this a true statement?

Carl Fink carlf at panix.com
Sun Jun 24 12:46:51 EDT 2001


In article <3b3611b0.10735139 at nntp.sprynet.com>, David C. Ullrich wrote:

> Whether anyone belives it or not, I _did_ have actual questions
> at the start of this. It was said that you cannot write a device
> driver in Python because Python cannot access hardware interrupts
> (or whatever). I don't see how a program _writing_ a device
> driver needs to do that, so I don't see what it has to do with
> whether you can write a device driver in Python.

The implication of "write" there meant "write a device driver in
Python that is executed by the Python interpreter."
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Carl Fink		carlf at dm.net



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