New submission from Kevin Smith:
I am using the mmap module on Linux with python 2.7.6 to access memory-mapped
IO. The device that I am accessing implements a hardware FIFO that holds
16-bit values and pops an entry when the MSB of the entry is read. I am trying
to use the mmap module to do
Jesús Cea Avión added the comment:
Kevin, mmap is not appropriate for your use. Looks like writing your own module
would be simple enough. If performance is not a problem, maybe ctypes/cffi
pointer magic encapsulate in your own custom class would be enough for you.
I mark this bug as not a
Jesús Cea Avión added the comment:
You could even use ctypes to access the underlining mmap OS syscall. But
accessing individual bytes using native python is not guaranteed to work
because python is too high level for that. For instance, it could read 64 bits
(a word) to only use 8 at the
