peek poke for win32

Wed Sep 19 17:24:57 EDT 2001

On 19 Sep 2001, jsnyder wrote:

> Is there any python library function that will implement a simple
> peek/poke to the PC parallel port, bypassing the HAL.  I did a deja
> news search and only found things from 1998 or earlier.  Hopefully
> someone has done this since then.

Peeks and pokes are Evil in any kind of an advanced operating system. You
have to open LPT1: (or LPT2: or whatnot) as a file and then use ioctl()s to
modify its settings.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>