Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ernest Williams
Dept. Head, Advanced Control Systems
Advanced Instrumentation Research, Technology Innovation Directorate
SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University

All,

I'm preparing for an initial release of my P4P module (PVAccess for Python).
So I'd like to ask for test results from anyone who has time+interest in doing
them.  My hope is to do the release next week.

The most basic testing is to build and run the unit tests.  This is described in:

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/building.html

pip/virtualenv users should note the included requirements-*.txt files
and the "Multiple Python Versions" section.

If you have a PVAccess server, also exercise the get/put/monitor operations
with the include command line tools.

> python -m p4p.client.cli -h

Or programatically from eg. an ipython shell.

> from p4p.client.thread import Context
> ctxt = Context('pva')
> print ctxt.get('pv:name')

further example, and reference at https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/client.html

Those using the RPC operation will want to look at the helper API

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/rpc.html#client-example


Interested users might want to have a look at the new version of MASAR
save/restore which uses P4P.  A release of this will hopefully be following
soon after this P4P release.  https://github.com/mdavidsaver/masarService



the main documentation page

https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/