Writing to the parallel port (Mem 0x378) when runnning WinXP or Mandrake 9.2

[Todd Gardner]

Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<Xns94481CC1B3CFcliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.4>...
> Gandalf <gandalf at geochemsource.com> wrote in 
> news:mailman.100.1070529056.16879.python-list at python.org:
> 
> > Use PySerial
> > 
> > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
> 
> thanks for recomending it :-) as a little clarification:
> the link to pyparallel is here:
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html
> 
> (its only a small note on the mainpage)
> 
> currently i have only py2.2 versions available for download, but i can 
> easily build the 2.3 version upon request,

I would like to request that you build a 2.3 version.

> or you can build it on your own with mingw32 or cygwin installed: python
> setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 
> install

I am quite the newbie so I would not even attempt to build it on my
own yet, soon maybe but...
> 
> you will need giveio.sys, also available in the downloads section, that 
> allows programs to access the io ports on Win NT/2k/XP
> 
> chris

Thanks,

Todd