Interfacing Parallel Port in Python

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I need a tutorial or perhaps more on using Python to print data from a PARALLEL port. Any ideas?

Thanks.

The first hit on Google revealed pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html ; you could either use the library directly, or if the license is incompatible, you can still learn from their code. Alternatively you can use ctypes perhaps to load a native library. — ninjagecko
– ninjagecko, Commented Apr 18, 2011 at 21:54
@ninjagecko: It seems the actual code is missing - there's pyserial, but there's no parallel module within, even though it's mentioned in the "documentation". — Tom
– Tom, Commented Sep 21, 2015 at 14:05

Henning Jacobs · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-06 11:20:11Z

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The mentioned PyParallel package is now available on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyparallel

I tested it successfully with GNU/Linux (Xubuntu 15.10) and Python 3.4.

answered Jan 6, 2016 at 11:20

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rzetterberg · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-18 21:51:45Z

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I have some more examples, just need to find them.

Some examples:

http://orionrobots.co.uk/PyParallel http://pyserial.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pyserial/trunk/pyparallel/examples/lcd.py?revision=398&view=markup

answered Apr 18, 2011 at 21:51

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