[Tutor] PYFTDI Library for FT232H

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/08/2012 02:02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 03/08/12 09:38, John Battle wrote:
>> I am relatively new to Pyton and am trying to use a library called pyftdi
>> which is used to establish communication with USB chips made by FTDI.
>> I have
>> been able to install the library and write a simple piece of code to
>> discover
>> my interfaces (I have two FT232H devices connected). The following
>> code seems
>> to work to accomplish that:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> from pyftdi.pyftdi.ftdi import *
>> vps=[(0x0403,0x6014)]
>> devs=Ftdi.find_all(vps)
>> print devs
>>
>> However I cannot figure out what to do next.
>
>
> If you are talking about this library:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyftdi
>
> have you tried reading the documentation, such as it is? I've had a
> quick look, and it appears to be extremely light on documentation, but I
> didn't dig too deeply, maybe you will have better luck. The GitHub page
> claims to have some examples, but I couldn't get it to work in my browser.
>
> You can also try this at the Python interactive interpreter:
>
> import pyftdi
> help(pyftdi)
>
>
> and see if the library has any useful embedded documentation. It may not.
>
>
> Do you know how to start the interactive interpreter? You need to open a
> terminal window, then at the prompt, you need to launch Python. Under
> Linux, I just type
>
> python
>
> and hit the ENTER key. If you are using Windows, it may be more
> complicated.
>
>
>

Just the same for Windows, although I tend to use PythonWin myself.

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.