This project compiles to a dynamically-linked library with the name visa.pyd. It implements an extension module for the Python programming language that provides some basic I/O capabilities via the VISA I/O library, visa32.dll.
Date: August 4, 2005
Version: 1.00
Programming Language: C++ in Microsoft Visual Studio 2003
Required Instrument: Any instrument connected to a PC via an interface that is supported by VISA, such as GPIB or USB.
Operating Systems Required: Windows® 98, Windows Me, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Other Requirements: Requires the Agilent I/O Libraries Suite 14 or greater (www.agilent.com/find/iosuite) to be compiled and used. Requires the Python programming language version 2.4 (www.python.org) to be compiled and used. Expects the Python installation directory to be c:\python24 and the VISA installation directory to be c:\program files\VISA.
Usage Instructions:
Unzip the Visual Studio project into a "clean" directory and open the project. Compile the program. If errors occur, it is likely the visa.h, visa.lib, python.h, and/or python24.lib external dependencies are intalled to a different directory than expected or not installed at all.
Other Information:
This implementation is meant to be a demonstration of technology, not a complete implementation of VISA in Python. The implementation only supports a few basic operations: reading and writing strings and opening resource sessions via their VISA name, such as GPIB1::23::INSTR. This project can be extended by engineers familiar with C/C++ and Python to include any other VISA operations required for instrument programming applications. See the Python version 2.4 documentation at www.python.org for documentation on the C extension API for Python.
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