pyparallel errors

[David Brown]

"vector" <Vector180W at netscape.net> wrote in message
news:3E8CD3AA.7070704 at netscape.net...
> Thanks chris but I get this error any ideas?
> im running xp
> i wonder if I have to tell xp to release the printer
>
> PythonWin 2.2.2 (#37, Nov 26 2002, 10:24:37) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32.
> Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (mhammond at skippinet.com.au) -
> see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>
>
>  >>> import parallel
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>    File "G:\Development\Python\Lib\site-packages\parallel\__init__.py",
> line 13, in ?
>      from parallelwin32 import *
>    File
> "G:\Development\Python\Lib\site-packages\parallel\parallelwin32.py",
> line 53, in ?
>      import _pyparallel
> ImportError: Couldn't access giveio device
>

(Note - I've skipped this newsgroup for a while, so this might be a repeat
of something you've already read.)

I've only used giveio with NT and W2K, but I think XP is much the same.  You
don't have to do anything with the printer - when a program uses giveio to
access the parallel port, it simply walks all over any other program using
it - I freely mix a number of debuggers and hardware that uses the parallel
port (although obviously I only run one at a time).  But it sounds much more
like you don't have giveio installed, or you don't have it running - try
"net start giveio".