Il Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:08:00 +0100, Chris Green ha scritto: > I am using the python3 smbus module, but it's hard work because of the > lack of documentation. Web searches confirm that the documentation is > somewhat thin! > > If you do the obvious this is what you get:- > > >>> import smbus dir (smbus) > ['SMBus', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', > '__package__', '__spec__'] > >>> help(smbus) > > > Help on module SMBus: > > NAME > SMBus > > DESCRIPTION > This module defines an object type that allows SMBus > transactions on hosts running the Linux kernel. The host kernel > must have I2C support, I2C device interface support, and a bus > adapter driver. > All of these can be either built-in to the kernel, or loaded > from modules. > > Because the I2C device interface is opened R/W, users of this > module usually must have root permissions. > > FILE > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/smbus.cpython-39-arm-linux- gnueabihf.so > > > Even a list of available methods would be handy! :-) > > > Presumably python3's smbus is just a wrapper so if I could find the > underlying C/C++ > documentation it might help.
https://pypi.org/project/smbus2/ smbus2 is designed to be a "drop-in replacement of smbus". SO you can look at its documentation for or use it instead of smbus. Disclaimer: I haven't any experience on this library -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
