How to use the outp(...) command

[Terry Reedy]

"Todd Gardner" <piir at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:9b849915.0312060146.7630d752 at posting.google.com...
> I think all I have to do is figure out how to use the outp(...)
> command.

Python itself does not have such a command.  Is there something in standard
lib?

> This is my first project in python and it seems a bit daunting.  I am
> trying to communicate to a custom device via the parallel port.  At
> this point I only want to write data to the data port.  In my case the
> memory address is x378.

Python itself is, generally, unaware of 'memory addresses'.

> I installed: Python 2.2, giveio_setup.exe and
> pyparallel-0.1.win32-py2.2.exe.  I was running Python2.3 but I don't
> think that it will matter for this newbie project.

Perhaps giveio... and pyparallel... (which I don't remember any clp mention
of before today) have outp() and one of the docs will tell you more about
how to use it.

TJR