accessing serial/parallel port from Python

[Chris Liechti]

"Nick Evans" <nick at huff.org.uk> wrote in
news:abh249$kh4$1 at knossos.btinternet.com: 

> Hello group,
> 
>                 Could anyone tell me if it is possable to access the
> Physical ports of a computer from python. I have a few electronic
> projects that i originally wrote programes in QBasic to access them,
> but i would like to start using python.

i work with embedded stuff too and therefore i made pyserial:

http://pyserial.sf.net

for the parallel port there isn't yet a lib so you have to come up with 
platform specific scripts. google might be able to find some code snippets 
for a start. right now i had no need for a parallel lib but thats likely to 
change in the near future (for JTAG interface). if you can be patioent...

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>