Re: Reaching the real world

2005-01-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On 4 Jan 2005 at 6:55, Fuzzyman wrote:
 
> What I'd like is an electronic interface that connects to several
> relays and a python extension module to switch on and off the relays.
> I've had a quick google and can't see anything too similar to what I
> want. pyro (python robotics) seems to require expensive (relatively)
> robotic equipment.

Look at pyParallel (http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html) 
to control the parallel port. From the parallel port you can control 
external devices. Please note that you will need to add a transistor 
to control a relay.

There is also pySerial, (http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/) to control 
the serial port. If you know how to use a microcontroller (AVR, PIC, 
8031, etc) you can communicate with it through the sereial port, and 
let the micro control the "real world".

Regards,
Alejandro.
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Re: micro-python - is it possible?

2005-08-30 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
Evil Bastard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone done any serious work on producing a subset of python's
> language definition that would suit it to a tiny microcontroller
> environment?

Take a look at PyMite :

http://www.python.org/pycon/papers/pymite/

 From the abstract :

"PyMite is a flyweight Python interpreter written from scratch to 
execute on 8-bit microcontrollers as well as desktop computers..."

Regards,
Alejandro.
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Re: Tkinter vs wxPython

2004-12-28 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
> I am especially interested in terms of learning curve, documentation,
> portability across platforms Linux/Windows and anything else you care
> to add. As I know only what I have read on this forum & surfing the
> web I would really appreciate the input of those who have used both,
> or decided to use one over the other.

I was in the same shoes a time ago. I started with Tkinter since is 
the standard GUI for Python. I read some tutorials, but didn't go to 
far, and didn't like the Tkinter looks too much. Then I tried 
wxPython, and things were better. And were much better when I started 
using wxGlade.

IMO, wxPython has a softert learning curve (specially if you use 
wxGlade), is portable between unix/windows/mac, with the advantage 
over Tkinter that it has a native look. Regarding documentation, 
there is plenty of it.

I must admit that my background regarding GUIs comes from Delphi, so 
that might bias my opinion.

In case you take the Tkinter route, I founded this tutorial useful : 
http://www.bembry.org/tech/python/notes/tkinter_1.php

Regards,
Alejandro.

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Re: Tkinter vs wxPython

2004-12-29 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
> Sure wxGlade/Boa/etc can help speed design and layout up, but what
> happens when you want to do non standard things or just get stuck
> because some thing just isn't working.

Then you add the necesary hand crafted code to the automatic 
generated code. At least is what I did when I needed.
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