Reading data from an ISA port

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On 23 Jul 2007, at 23:09, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> Gabriel Dragffy schrieb:
>> Dear list members
>>
>> I must admit I am a new user of Python, but it is a language that I
>> enjoy using.
>>
>> For one of my university projects I need to write a program that can
>> read several bytes from an ISA port. It has been suggested to me  
>> that I
>> look at using C or Pyinline. If I can I would prefer to continue  
>> to use
>> Python, and Pyinline won't play ball.
>>
>> I am sure Python can do this for me, but the question is how? What
>> modules and code do I need to look? I'd be very grateful for any
>> suggestions and advice.
>
> Python as-is won't help. It has no concept of memory addresses and
> direct access to them. However, a trivial C-extension together with  
> the
> struct and/or ctypes module will help.
>
> What you essentially need to code is a C-extension that will allow you
> to directly access memory. Wrap that either in an extension or  
> using ctypes.
>
> Diez
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Thanks for your information.

Are you able to tell me where or how to get or make this trivial C  
extension, please?

Regards

Gabriel