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pcm
Hi,

Has anyone ever worked on a Python-WinCE-based program that involved serial
port management ?

Regards,

Philippe

Jun 3 '06 #1
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pcm wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone ever worked on a Python-WinCE-based program that involved serial
port management ?

Because of the size of the runtime and the fragility of the GUI
toolkits, there has been little serious development with PythonCE.
(Little not none - and it's great to have Python available.)

There is no built in support for the serial port in PythonCE (AFAIK).
Your best bet is using ctypes (for which a PythonCE port has been done)
and the microsoft API.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
Regards,

Philippe


Jun 3 '06 #2
pcm
Fuzzyman wrote:

pcm wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone ever worked on a Python-WinCE-based program that involved
serial port management ?


Because of the size of the runtime and the fragility of the GUI
toolkits, there has been little serious development with PythonCE.
(Little not none - and it's great to have Python available.)

There is no built in support for the serial port in PythonCE (AFAIK).
Your best bet is using ctypes (for which a PythonCE port has been done)
and the microsoft API.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
Regards,

Philippe



Thanks, does that mean that I need to write an extension to the WinCE API or
is that built-into the Python package ?

Regards,
Philippe

Jun 4 '06 #3

pcm wrote:
Fuzzyman wrote:

pcm wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone ever worked on a Python-WinCE-based program that involved
serial port management ?

Because of the size of the runtime and the fragility of the GUI
toolkits, there has been little serious development with PythonCE.
(Little not none - and it's great to have Python available.)

There is no built in support for the serial port in PythonCE (AFAIK).
Your best bet is using ctypes (for which a PythonCE port has been done)
and the microsoft API.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
Regards,

Philippe



Thanks, does that mean that I need to write an extension to the WinCE API or
is that built-into the Python package ?


(Sorry for late reply.)

There is a version of ctypes *compiled* for PythonCE (from the PythonCE
sourceforge page).

Using ctypes you should be able to use the Microsoft Win32 API to
access the serial port from *pure Python* code.

You will need to use the Microsoft docs to see which calls to make.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml Regards,
Philippe


Jun 5 '06 #4

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