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Subject: Re: How do I discover port names (/dev/cu.usb… or COM…) from devices

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:18:04 +0800
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:18 PM, Robert Poor <rdpoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After glancing at usbdk (and its requirement for Visual Studio and other
> compilation tools),

No, there are binary release.
https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/releases

> it occurs to me that there's another approach: Use
> Python's ctypes to write a bespoke interface to the FTDI API.  For example,
> see:
>
>    https://stackoverflow.com/a/1942472/558639
>
> (which happens to be about writing an interface to an FTDI device...)
>

There are python bindings for FTDI's D2XX. I have not used
it though.

Example:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftd2xx

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Xiaofan

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