sockcan
Provides a socketcan-alike interface other arbitrary CAN drivers.
Installing
pip install sockcan
Documentation
Documentation is available here.
Running benchmarks
Benchmarks can be run with python -m sockcan.benchmarks:
python -m sockcan.benchmarks --help
Usage: python -m sockcan.benchmarks [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
daemon Benchmarks all 4 scenarios: direct kernel vs userspace daemon,...
kernel Benchmarks python-can vs sockcan with direct kernel...
Kernel benchmark
Compares python-can and sockcan on direct kernel communications:
python -m sockcan.benchmarks kernel --rounds 200 --batch-size 100
Daemon benchmark
Compares all 4 scenarios: python-can + sockcan on both direct kernel and userspace daemon. Requires vcan0 and uses a virtual bus (no hardware needed):
python -m sockcan.benchmarks daemon --rounds 100 --batch-size 50 --port 18765
Running tests
Tests are based on pytest and hypothesis. Make sure to install this package with test extra (pip install .\[test\).
You can show hypothesis stats with --hypothesis-show-statistics:
python -m pytest -vv --hypothesis-show-statistics
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