It is certainly unusual. Device drivers usually require a lot more speed 
than an interpreted (even with psyco) language can deliver. However, python 
can do all the requisite things, and for a touch screen, which certainly 
doesn't need all that much speed, I can't see why not.

How 'bout letting the rest of see it when its done? Should be wierd enough 
to make an example of...


> From: "Matthew Sherborne" <miracle@[...].nz>
> 
> I've been thinking of writing a device driver in python.
> 
> Some people say this is ridiculous.
> 
> I used psyco to improve the speed, and now have a program that does the 
> device driver's job (a proprietry touchscreen driver) in user mode.
> 
> Now, I have no idea how to make the python exe or dll run in kernel mode. I 
> wonder if there are some special api calls that need to made.
> 
> I'm downloading WinDriver. I hope this can help me.
> 
> Does anyone not think this is a crazy thing to do?
> 
> Why not use python for a device driver?
> 
> I just see it as python dll is the driver, and the .py file are like 
> permanent configuration file for it.
> 
> Comments Appreciated
> Matthew Sherborne




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