Re: Testing UIs against real databases using simulation mode

[emmanuel_mayssat@lynceantech.com]

Lewis,

> For serial or Ethernet devices that have an ASCII communication
> protocol, I usually write a simulator for the device in Python using
> Python's asyncore and asynchat modules.  Then, I just change how the
> ASYN port is created in my EPICS soft IOC and I can test any GUIs, EPICS
> databases, etc.

Do you have a simple example of asyncore/asynchat in epics context?
I briefly checked 
http://docs.python.org/library/asyncore.html
http://docs.python.org/library/asynchat.html

Thanks,

-- 
Emmanuel