PyLink 0.1

Universal communication interface using File-Like API

Pylink offers a universal communication interface using File-Like API. For now, only the TCP, UDP and Serial interfaces are supported. The USB and GSM interfaces will be added soon.

The aim of this project is to allow any type of communication. It is best suited for projects that have various ways of communicating including IP remote or local serial communication.

Installation

You can install, upgrade, uninstall pylink with these commands:

$ pip install pylink
$ pip install --upgrade pylink
$ pip uninstall pylink

Or if you don’t have pip:

$ easy_install pylink

Examples

>>> from pylink import TCPLink, link_from_url
>>> link = TCPLink('localhost', 7) # conntect to echo tcp service
>>> link.write('Hello')
2012-06-05 12:44:06,211 INFO: new <TCPLink tcp:127.0.0.1:7> was initialized
2012-06-05 12:44:06,211 INFO: Write : <b'hello'>
>>> link.read() == 'Hello'
2012-06-05 12:44:06,312 INFO: Read : <'hello'>
True

>>> link = link_from_url("serial:/dev/ttyUSB0:115200")
>>> print link
<SerialLink serial:/dev/ttyUSB0:115200:8N1>

Changelog

Version 0.1

Released on 2012-06-05.

• Support for TCP, UDP and Serial (with pyserial).