A beginning beginner's question about input, output and . . .

[Cameron Simpson]

On 12Jan2021 15:18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2021-01-12, songbird <songbird at anthive.com> wrote:
>>   it can be used for pretty much anything except perhaps
>> high pressure real time things, but i bet someone else will
>> know that is being done too, i've just not heard of it.  :)
>
>AFAIK, Python can't be used to write device drivers for any popular OS
>(Linux, Unix, Windows, OSX). It also can't be used on small embedded
>systems (real-time or not).

Well, yes and no. Not a pure device driver. But there are systems like 
FUSE for hooking kernel level filesystem stuff to an external system 
programme.  I've used the Python llfuse library to implement a 
filesystem in Python.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>