Welcome to pylibftdi's documentation! ===================================== pylibftdi is a simple library interacting with FTDI devices to provide serial and parallel IO from Python. The two main use cases it serves are: * the need to control or monitor external equipment, for which a FTDI module may be a cheap and reliable starting point. * the need to interact with existing devices which are known to contain FTDI chipsets for their USB interface. FTDI (http://www.ftdichip.com) create devices (chipsets, modules, cables etc) to interface devices to the USB port of your computer. libftdi (http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/) is an open source driver to communicate with these devices, and runs on top of libusb. It works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and likely other systems too. pylibftdi is a pure Python module which interfaces (via ctypes) to libftdi, exposing a simple file-like API to connected devices. It supports serial and parallel IO in a straight-forward way, and aims to be one of the simplest ways of interacting with the world outside your PC. Contents ======== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 introduction quickstart installation basic_usage advanced_usage how_to troubleshooting pylibftdi Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`