Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> >>> fd = open('/dev/ppi0','w') >> >>> fcntl.ioctl(fd.fileno(),'PPISCTRL',10000000) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? >> TypeError: an integer is required >> >> i guess i'm failing to properly define the int i need for the 8byte >> value ineed to send the port to set pins high /low >> > > Python doesn't know about PPISCTRL - it has no way of knowing all > "secret", OS-specific constants for ioctl-calls. > > So, you need to figure out the numeric value of that constant .- look it > up in the appropriate header-file. > > Then, you do have the next problem with passing that 10000000 value of > yours. ioctl expects strings or buffers as parameters which contain a > byte-representation of the value you want to set. This is an snippet I > use to read the event device capabilities under linnux: > > > buf = array.array('c', [' ' for i in xrange(EV_MAX / 8 + 1)]) > fcntl.ioctl(self._fd, EVIOCGBIT(0, len(buf)), buf, True) > caps = struct.unpack("I", buf)[0] > > HTH, > > Diez > *sigh* if only pyparallel would install
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