On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, james middendorff wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a tutorial and or module that would help me
> create a program to use a parallel port to turn on/off a device in
> linux? I have searched but cannot find a tutorial on a good way to do
> this. The whole project would be to use a parallel port to control solid
> state relays, allowing me to drive a rc car from my pc... Thanks for any
> help


Hi James,

You might find the pyParallel project useful:

    http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html

There's another parallel port module called parapin:

    http://parapin.sourceforge.net/

Both have examples that should help you get started.  Best of wishes!

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