sending bytes to parallel port

[Timothy Smith]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-07-29, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'd particularly recommend taking a look at the pyparallel
>> module found here:
>>
>>   http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
>>     
>
> Oops, there isn't actually a link to pyparallel from that page
> (I swear there used to be).  Here's the pyparallel page:
>
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html
>
>   
i've had people suggest using fcntl to set the pins status, i'm looking 
to that if anyone has any suggestions