Hey Everyone! I've got a question regarding the capabilities of python in a real time environment. I'll start by saying I'm a little bit flaky when it comes to terminology, so please correct me or ask where it seems I'm not beings specific or using the wrong wording.
I am looking into a project for the company I work for. Essentially it involves setting up a real time monitor / signal injector in between a CPU board and a system controller. The system controller sends signals (message packets) to the CPU board. We would like to create an environment where we can modify signals, inject new messages, drop signals, etc. This would simulate communication failures and message dropouts to see how the CPU board responds. The application monitor would use a COM port to send and receive messages. The most important part about this monitor is that absolutely no messages get delayed or dropped due to inturrupts or lag on the PC that the monitor is running on. What would be the expected sampling time range that I could expect to handle? I have seen similar applications written for other projects that we have which were done in Visual Basic. I assume that if VB is up to the task, Python should be as well. What kind of libraries am I looking at? I will probably use wxWindows, but what about for the serial ports and packet timing? Like I said - I'm not sure what kind of "real time" this is - all I know is that I need messages to not get dropped when they're received. Thanks! Blaine Booher -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
