#4 access to serial port

[Angel Perea Martinez]

It would be interesting to add a serial port interface
capability to the release. The oportunities for
embedded systems are huge, once python is running in a
platform that weights scarcely hundred grams

Supose you have just built an electronic gadget an want
to control or extract data form it. Instead of
painfully selecting and programming a microprocessor,
just place your pocket pc inside and program everything
with python.

[Danny Staple]

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Access to the IR port, or the Bluetooth stack would be just
as desirable. For example linking a PDA with the RCX or the NXT.

Porting PySerial and PyParallel modules would help - but I
am not sure about IR (IrDA or Consumer IR for PDAs that can
manage it), or BlueTooth.

[Luke Dunstan]

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Instead of porting those modules I would recommend using
ctypes to access the Windows serial APIs directly. The
same should be possible for Bluetooth and other protocols.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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How does one access the serial port with python on windows ce? This would be extremely useful and a dealbreaker in a device my company is manufacturing.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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How does one access the serial port with python on windows ce? This would be extremely useful and a dealbreaker in a device my company is manufacturing.

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How does one access the serial port with python on windows ce? This would be extremely useful and a dealbreaker in a device my company is manufacturing.

[Luke Dunstan]

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Like I said, use ctypes and the Windows serial port APIs. Try searching the pythonce mailing list archives; I think there may be some examples.