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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hie,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am a newbie to python. I hope this question is not so
silly to programmers out there<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am a test engineer discovering python, and my thoughts are
skewed towards engineering issues (^_^)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a program that accesses EEPROM from the serial port ,
which is bundled together with the engineering tester<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It runs under XP environment<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I would like to use PythonWin to control the features of
this program, with the idea of automating choices currently being handled
manually.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I don have the source to this program.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can I have some pointers on how I can achieve this, if it is
possible, and any good open source projects or tutorial/books that can guide me
towards achieving this objective?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thank you very much for your time into looking at this
problem<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My objective for venturing into python, is to use this
language as the OOP, C as low engineering level interface, bind c into python,
and release engineering programs on linux and windows. Is there anyone who has
gone thru similar learning curve? Would greatly appreciate your guidance on
this (^_^)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue'>Devendran</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=blue><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>Test Engineering</span></font></b></strong><font
size=1 color=blue><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>Tel: +6
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style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>Fax: +6
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