Has anyone gotten pyparallel to work?

[Brian]

Nevermind.  It was easier to swig parapin and use that instead.



Brian <ThisIsNotMyReal at ddress.com> wrote in
news:Xns956EAA3D784ABnonenonecom at 24.93.43.121: 

> When using this:
> 
> import parallel
> p = parallel.Parallel()     #open LPT1
> p.setData(0x55)
> 
> 
> 
> I get this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "port2.py", line 2, in ?
>     p = parallel.Parallel()     #open LPT1
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/parallel/parallelppdev.py",
>   line 
> 175, in __init__
>     self._fd = os.open(self.device, os.O_RDWR)
> 
> OSError: [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/parport0'
> 
> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "Parallel instance has no
> attribute '_fd'" in <bound method Parallel.__del__ of 
> <parallel.parallelppdev.Parallel instance at 0x403d96ac>> ignored
> 
> 
> 
> Yet a program I wrote in C has no problem accessing or reading bits
> from LPT1.  /dev/parport0 exists and is chmoded to 666.  Is there some
> secret to getting pyparallel to work that I'm missing (besides
> brains)? 
>