Accessing low-level registers of an embedded device using Python

Question

I have an embedded device with Python installed on in. Is it possible to explicitly access registers in pure Python, or should I write C extensions for my Python code?

Answer 1

It seems that you can't access the low level registers. I recommend just writing a short C extension code to allow Python to access the registers you need.

Answer 2

I assume "registers" means "i/o-mapped device registers".

If you have Linux-x86, there is a Python PortIO package.

From the link: "PortIO is a Python wrapper for the port I/O macros like outb, inb, etc. provided by the C library on Linux x86 platforms. "