Parallel port interface

Chris Liechti cliechti at gmx.net
Wed Apr 28 17:16:41 EDT 2004


Les Smithson <lsmithso at NOhare.SPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote in 
news:m31xm8vy96.fsf at hare.demon.co.uk:

> Would ioport.py help? See:
> http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/ioport/ioport.html.
> 
> Its Linux only atm, but it wouldn't be hard to port to Windows. I
> might even do it myself!

you need to make a compiled extension with the inb and outb functions. i 
have done that for pyparallel. thats the easy part, then you have to find a 
driver that allows io port access on win NT/2k/XP. i used giveio.sys and 
you'll find it on the page below too.

http://pyserial.sf.net/pyparallel.html

chris

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