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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:44:40 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> Python does not support any significant degree of low-level programming.
> 
> A key example of low-level programming is control of hardware, which on 
> most systems means accessing memory-mapped registers at specific 
> addresses, reading and writing in specific orders.  Python has no means 
> to do any of that - C and C++ both provide this ability.

I’ve got news for you: this kind of thing is perfectly doable in Python
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html>.