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On 28/08/2024 00:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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>.

It's Python calling a special module to do the dirty work. That's not 
far removed from Python just invoking an external C program to do the job.

By contrast, my scripting language can directly do the low level stuff. 
If there is a byte value at a certain address, it can access it like this:

  p:=makeref(0x40'0000, byte)
  println p^