On 23 Jul 2007, at 23:09, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Gabriel Dragffy schrieb: >> Dear list members >> >> I must admit I am a new user of Python, but it is a language that I >> enjoy using. >> >> For one of my university projects I need to write a program that can >> read several bytes from an ISA port. It has been suggested to me >> that I >> look at using C or Pyinline. If I can I would prefer to continue >> to use >> Python, and Pyinline won't play ball. >> >> I am sure Python can do this for me, but the question is how? What >> modules and code do I need to look? I'd be very grateful for any >> suggestions and advice. > > Python as-is won't help. It has no concept of memory addresses and > direct access to them. However, a trivial C-extension together with > the > struct and/or ctypes module will help. > > What you essentially need to code is a C-extension that will allow you > to directly access memory. Wrap that either in an extension or > using ctypes. > > Diez > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Thanks for your information. Are you able to tell me where or how to get or make this trivial C extension, please? Regards Gabriel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
