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author Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au>
date Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:35:45 +0930
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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright (c) 2011
#      Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au>.  All rights reserved.
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# A wrapper to make vxi_11 behave more like we expect

import exceptions
import vxi_11

class VXIDevice(object):
    def __init__(self, host, device):
        self.v = vxi_11.vxi_11_connection(host, device = device, timeout = 1500)

    def flush(self, timeout = None):
        pass
    
    def write(self, data):
        err, base = self.v.write(data)
        if err != 0:
            raise exceptions.IOError("Error writing " + str(err))

    def read(self, timeout = None):
        if timeout != None:
            timeout = int(timeout * 1000.0) # Convert to msec

        err, reason, result = self.v.read(timeout)
        if err != 0:
            raise exceptions.IOError("Error reading %d, reason %d" % (err, reason))
        return result