A beginning beginner's question about input, output and . . .
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Tue Jan 12 16:46:57 EST 2021
On 12Jan2021 15:18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2021-01-12, songbird <songbird at anthive.com> wrote:
>> it can be used for pretty much anything except perhaps
>> high pressure real time things, but i bet someone else will
>> know that is being done too, i've just not heard of it. :)
>
>AFAIK, Python can't be used to write device drivers for any popular OS
>(Linux, Unix, Windows, OSX). It also can't be used on small embedded
>systems (real-time or not).
Well, yes and no. Not a pure device driver. But there are systems like
FUSE for hooking kernel level filesystem stuff to an external system
programme. I've used the Python llfuse library to implement a
filesystem in Python.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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