Coded Structure

In which I discuss dynamism in catching exceptions - something which took me by surprise and could hide bugs - or enable fun... The Problem...

'pylibftdi' is a library for talking to FTDI devices via the libftdi library. FTDI make a wide range of chipsets and modules for int...

I’m a great fan of Python; not only do I think the language itself is clean and readable, the community polite and helpful, and the ecosyst...

I’ve recently released pylibftdi v0.10. pylibftdi is a ‘minimal Pythonic interface to libftdi’, and is intended to be (possibly?) the easie...

Continuing my pursuit of having a custom vocabulary on my command line, preferably via argv[0] abuse, I've now addressed the subjec...

This is my 'or it doesn't exist' blog post [1] [2] [3] . I think everyone should have one ;-) A big chunk of my life is proces...

I bought a new Pogoplug over the weekend (only £50 new at PC World), and after being genuinely impressed by the Pogoplug software, decided ...

pylibftdi is a file-like wrapper to FTDI USB devices such as the UB232R (a USB<->serial converter) and the UM245R (8 bit parallel I/...

In my last post , I wrote some thoughts on how using the text based meta-language [1] of regular expressions to filter and manipulate struc...

Anyone who has been a developer for a while gets familiar with regular expressions . They eat text for breakfast, and spit out desired answe...

...or how adding a timeout can make your program suffer Call me lazy, but I like threads. Or at least I like the programming model they p...

pylibftdi has always been about minimalism, which means that if you wanted to do something it didn't support, things got tricky. One of ...

pylibftdi 0.6 has been out the door and onto PyPI for the last few days, but I'm only just getting round to blogging about it. It'...

One of the more annoying things about HTTP is that it wants to send things in complete chunks: you ask for an object with a particular URL,...

I've done some tidying up of pylibftdi , fixing a few bugs, refactored the pylibftdi package to contain several modules instead of ever...

[edit 2013-11-25: note that recent versions of pylibftdi have deprecated and then removed the ability to use 'Driver' in this way;...

Update 2011/02/02: In trying to port pylibftdi to Python3, I found that the libraries which get built following the instructions below are...

This is the third in my series of blog posts about doing IO with FTDI's Async BitBang mode on the UM245R / UM232R eval boards, and this...