Parallel port interfacing in python on Vista x64

[SiWi]

On Feb 6, 8:55 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> SiWi schrieb:
>
> > I have done some googling on this topic, but I haven't found anything
> > thats really working on Vista x64.
> > The most promising result I found was the Inpout32.dll:
> >http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Ports/Parallel_Port/A_tutorial_on_Parallel_...
> > But when using some code like that, I can't measure I differing state
> > on my breadboard circurity:
> > from ctypes import windll
> > p = windll.inpout32
> > p.Inp32(0x378) #default 255(all high) on my pc
> > p.Out32(0x378, 0) #put all low on port 2-9
>
> > Is it even possible to interface the Parallel Port on Vista64, and if
> > so, how does one do that?
>
> Did you try pyparallel?
>
> Diez

Yep, but when trying to make a instance of the Parallel class I get an
windows error.