As a newbie to Python, I can't comment on the success of your proposal; 
however if what you propose works -- you've got one huge device driver. 
Essentially all the core functionality of Python as excess baggage.

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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


Bruce Peterson
Terastat, Inc
Information Access Systems
Voice (425) 466 7344
Fax (206) 350 3685

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