[Tutor] PyVISA GPIB

[markrivet at gsoftcon.com]

"Donald Bedsole" <drbedsole at gmail.com> said:

> Sorry,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Donald Bedsole <drbedsole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:42 AM,  <markrivet at gsoftcon.com> wrote:
>>>  I would like to control electronic instruments with PyVISA. I have
>>> downloaded PyVISA and unpacked the files into the Python27/lib/site-packages dir
>>> and in the IDLE
>>> GUI I run "import visa' for a quick check and I get this error:
>>>
>>> import visa
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "<pyshell#25>", line 1, in <module>
>>>    import visa
>>> ImportError: No module named visa
>>>
>>> I'm scratching my head. Help
>>>
>>> Mark R Rivet, Genesis Software Consulting
>>> ASCT(Computer Technologies), BSIT/SE(Software Engineering)
>>> Electrical Engineering Technician
>>> Member IEEE, Computer Society
>>>
>>>
>>> Do or do not; there is no try.
>>
>> Could this be the problem?
>>
>> PyVISA doesn’t implement VISA itself. Instead, PyVISA provides
>> bindings to the VISA library (a DLL or
>> “shared object” file). This library is usually shipped with
>> your GPIB
>> interface or software like LabVIEW. Alternatively, you can download it
>> from your favourite equipment vendor (National Instruments, Agilent,
>> etc).
>>
>> quote from this document:
>>
>> http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net/pyvisa.pdf
>>
> 
> I read the document a little better and visa is supposed to be part of
> the function.  But maybe something else in the document might help
> you.
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor at python.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
> 
Well, I have Labview installed on my system including the visa libraries.

Mark R Rivet, Genesis Software Consulting
ASCT(Computer Technologies), BSIT/SE(Software Engineering)
Electrical Engineering Technician
Member IEEE, Computer Society


Do or do not; there is no try.