XNET Python support

[robbiak]

I know there are several python supported NI libraries, such as PyDAQmx and PyVISA, are there plans for a python supported XNET library?  If so, when will it be released?

[GatorChomp]

Hi robbiak,

I don't know if there are plans to release such a library or not, and that information is not something that is always available to us. If you would like, you can post or see if this idea has already been posted on the Idea Exchange.
http://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Idea-Exchange/ct-p/ideas

As far as I know, PyVISA and PyDAQmx are neither official libraries and I believe are simply wrappers for our C or .NET APIs for those specific drivers. It's not supported in that we can't guarantee proper behavior, but since XNET has a C API available you could call that C API from within python or create your own wrapper.

[epage]

As an update, work has started on a python NI-XNET package.  We've released a 0.1.0 with support for a subset of the API and a decent amount of testing.  Overtime, we plan to implement more of the API

You can find the project at https://github.com/ni/nixnet-python