accessing serial/parallel port from Python

[James J. Besemer]

Yes.  You simply open them like any other "file".  ioctl functions work
too, e.g., to send break on a serial line.

    TTY = "/dev/ttyS1"
    ttyi = open( TTY, "rb" )
    ttyo = open( TTY, "wb" )
    ...



--jb

Les Smithson wrote:

> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Evans <nick at huff.org.uk> writes:
>
>     Nick> Hello group, Could anyone tell me if it is possable to
>     Nick> access the Physical ports of a computer from python. I have
>     Nick> a few electronic projects that i originally wrote programes
>     Nick> in QBasic to access them, but i would like to start using
>     Nick> python.
>
>     Nick> Cheers in advance Nick Evans
>
> For Linux //el ports, try my ioport package -
> http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/ioport/ioport.html.
>
> For multi-platform serial I/O, pySerial is good -
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net.
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