On 15/05/2015 23:12, Wilson, Pete wrote:
Greetings I am trying to write a test executive program using python 2.7 on a windows 7 computer. I
want to connect to a Keithley 2100 voltmeter using National Instruments VISA. I am having trouble
installing pyvisa. All the documentation refers to using 'pip' and a command line "$ pip
install pyvisa" . What interface or console is this? "$" prompt looks like a Linux
command line. How do we do this with windows?
It's a Windows command line prompt. You can get this by hitting the
Windows logo key with 'R' and then entering cmd<return>. However the
simplest way for you I think is to download this
https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/python/pip-for-windows
Do I have to do this? Or can I use the native visa module in Python 2.7? Using
the help() and dir() features I can get some basic information about visa, but
the functions have changed, like visa.ResourceManager.open_resource is not
working. I really liked this function... Are there any examples of how to use
this new visa? I have some working code below that uses pyvisa, can it be
converted?
Please help us to help you. Stating "is not working" is less than
useless, please show us exactly what happens. Cut and paste any output,
don't rely on typing it as this often results in further errors that
just confuse the issue.
def update_current():
import visa
rm = visa.ResourceManager()
rm.list_resources()
current_1_ma = ""
exe_check = "PASS"
try:
dut_data = open("dut_data.txt", "w")
except:
exe_check = "FAIL"
Don't use bare excepts as it's asking for trouble. Much better to leave
out the error handling to start with and just let your programming
errors bubble up as stack traces. Then add in appropriate things to
catch. In the above FileNotFoundError amongst others seems suitable.
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what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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