aiopvxs Python library available

[Mike Smith via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Dear all,

I'm a user and fan of the PVXS and P4P libraries and have been experimenting with pybind11 recently. I'd like to announce the release of a Python project I've been working on I'm calling "aiopvxs", in the hope it will be useful to the EPICS community.

aiopvxs: Asynchronous PVAccess client/server API using Python asyncio and pybind11
source: https://github.com/m2es3h/aiopvxs

docs/readme: https://github.com/m2es3h/aiopvxs/blob/main/README.md

Key Features

- Uses pybind11 to generate python bindings to pvxslibs v1.4 C++ API

- Supports StaticSource PVAccess server

- Supports async get and put client Context operations

- Supports getting/setting Value fields with Python data types (pybind11 built-in and custom type casting)

- Currently ~700 lines of C++ code to implement above features

The src/tests/ directory contains python usage examples and unit tests.

Regards,

Mike Smith