Re: EPICS Python??

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@anl.gov>]

On 9/5/07 1:57 AM, Heinrich du Toit wrote:
> Hi
>
> My question is simply.
> Which one?

Hi, Heinrich.

"No. There is another." :-)

I use EpicsCA, written by Matthew Newville:

  http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~newville/Epics/Python/

It has worked quite well for me and has good documentation.

-lewis

> On the web-site there are 2 different CaPython links. 
> One from FNAL and one from KEK.
>
> I've downloaded KEK so far. Mainly because of the multi-threaded claim.
> It seems to do the basics cleanly and easily. I even manage to setup a
> monitor fairly easy.
> But I can't seem to find documentation on this.
>
> Most of the other info is about the one from FNAL.
> I don't know much about this. 
> Accept that it has 2 parts caPython and caChannel.
>
> So which one do I use?
> Which one is supposedly newer?
> Which one is more widely used by other people?
> Any specific pro's cons about them?
>
> And if KEK's - where do I find documenation? The documentation inside
> the library doesn't really tell you what todo and the samples is way to
> big to figure out what is going on.

--
J. Lewis Muir
Software Engineer
CARS/IMCA-CAT