Re: [Gumstix-users] GPIO with Python

[ken s. <ken...@gm...>]

On 11/22/06, Warren Jackson <wj...@wa...> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a newbie question, but what is the best way to access the
> GPIO in Python?
>
> Do I have to write the basics in C and then cType or SWIG that into python?

depends on how fast you want to access the gpio.
you could write a driver and access the driver from c that is wrapped with SWIG.
or you could us os.system:
os.system('echo "GPIO out set" > /proc/gpio/GPIO66')

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ken