[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > So I ordered a mini SSC II (the servo controller), in order to > control some servos from the computer. I was hoping to use python to > do the control but have two questions... > > 1) How should I write to the serial port with python? I found the > module "pyserial": > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ > on the python cheeseshop, and it looks solid but I thought you might > have a better suggestion.
pyserial is what you need. > 2) To control the servos I have to send the SSC II a string of 3 > numbers, 3 bytes long (so 3 numbers in the range 0 - 255, each as a > single byte, one after another). In C I'd do this by sending 3 > char's, as they're only 1 byte, but i'm not exactly sure how to do it > in Python. Strings in python are byte-strings. So you can use them. Additionally, I recommend looking into the module struct. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list