[Tutor] COM Ports

[Parth Malwankar]

Though I am very new to python, incase you are considering writing a wrapper to 
C code for accessing the serial port, functions _inp() and _outp() declared in c
onio.h under windows provide access to i/o ports for reading and writing bytes.

Regards,
Parth

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:53:10PM -0400, Timothy M. Brauch wrote:
|I have a program I want to write and I would greatly appreciate some
|help with getting started.  I think it can be done in Python, and would
|love it if it can be.
|  
|I have an infrared receiver for a remote control hooked up to my Win98
|computer's COM2.  What I would like to do is be able to use the remote
|to fun functions inside a Python program, depending on what button is
|pushed.  The receiver also can pick up signals from any remote, but the
|program that came with the remote will only operate with this remote.  I
|would really like to eventually write a program that can be changed
|fairly easily depending on what remote I have on hand (no need to worry
|about losing the remote).
|
|The problem is I don't know how (or even if it is possible) to use
|Python to "get" the buttons from COM2.  Also, I'm not even sure what
|COM2 sends when I do push a button.
|
|If someone can just point me in the right direction, I would be very
|greatful.  Of course, any other help you might want to provide would be
|great as well.
|
| - Tim
|
|**I tried sending this earlier, but I don't know if it went through.  If
|so, please ignore my double posting.**
|
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