accessing serial/parallel port from Python

[Les Smithson]

>>>>> "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.