On Feb 11, 2:46 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, volcano wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2:21 pm, Maël Benjamin Mettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> volcano schrieb: > > >> > Can it be done, and if yes - how? > > >> Define address. Are you talking about URLs? File paths? Postal > >> addresses? Memory addresses? Whatever addresses? > >> I'm afraid the people on this list can't read your thoughts... > > > I presumed that "absolute" address somehow qualifies my question. If > > it is not - I was talking about physical computer memory, on PC - to > > be more specific. > > In pure Python it's not possible and even in C it might be difficult to > get an absolute *physical* memory address unless you run DOS. Modern > operating systems tend to use some virtualisation of memory. :-) > > What's your goal? What do you expect at the memory address you want to > access? > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
My goal is to sync program with external equipment through a register defined as an absolute physical address. I know how to do it from C - was curious if it may be done from Python. Can it be done? Thanks, Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list