Introduction to Python VXI11

Overview

This Python package supports the VXI-11 Ethernet instrument control protocol for controlling VXI11 and LXI compatible instruments. The implementation is pure Python and highly portable.

It is released under the MIT license, see LICENSE for more details.

Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Alex Forencich and Michael Walle

See also:

• Python VXI11 home page
• GitHub repository

Features

• Supports Python 2 and Python 3
• Pure Python
• Highly portable
• Communicates with instruments over the VXI11 TCP/IP instrument control protocol

Requirements

• Python 2 or Python 3

Installation

To install the module for all users on the system, administrator rights (root) are required.

From source

Download the archive, extract, and run:

python setup.py install

Packages

There are also packaged versions for some Linux distributions:

Arch Linux

Python VXI11 is available under the name “python-vxi11-git” in the AUR.