[Tutor] communicating with low level hardware in python?

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shalehperry@comcast.net
Thu Jul 10 01:33:01 2003


On Wednesday 09 July 2003 20:03, Thomas CLive Richards wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm writing an app which will talk to industrial scales through a serial
> port. I'm using wxWindows to form a simple GUI, but now i need to set up
> the serial port part of things.
>
> What's the best way to do this? I don't know enough C to write it in C,
> so it'll have to be python (and speed isn't an issue here). Any ideas? a
> quick scan of the modules list didn't reveal anything special...
>
> I'm hoping someone  out there has written a module which will help me..
>
> Thanks in advance ;)

a quick google for 'python serial' turns up:

http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/

trust in google ......