This is a project based on the original Python Arduino Prototyping API. I started a fork and after a while the whole thing was getting too different to make a pull request so I just put it here. The old project had wierd things going on to handle the communication, where I rely on parseInt() to do the work for me. There were also problems with analogWrite(), which is working in this version.

Major changes:

• .pde is completely redone
• Small changes in the arduino.py file
• Added examples

Here follows the original README (with updated example):

© 2009-2010 Akash Manohar J [email protected] under the MIT License

The Python Arduino Prototyping API helps you to quickly prototype Arduino programs, without having to repeatedly load the program to the Arduino board.

1. Load prototype.pde onto your Arduino dev board.
2. Import the arduino lib in your python script.

Arduino.output(list_of_output_pins) - set the output pins

Digital I/O

1. Arduino.setHigh(pin_number)
2. Arduino.setLow(pin_number)
3. Arduino.getState(pin_number)
4. Arduino.getState() - returns true if pin state is high, else it returns false.

Analog I/O

1. Arduino.analogRead(pin_number) - returns the analog value
2. Arduino.analogWrite(pin_number, value) - sets the analog value

Misc

1.) Arduino.turnOff() - sets all the pins to low state

2.) Arduino.close() - closes serial connection. Using this makes sure that you won't have to disconnect & reconnect the Arduino again to recover the serial port.

from arduino import Arduino
import time

b = Arduino('/dev/ttyUSB0')
pin = 9

#declare output pins as a list/tuple
b.output([pin])

for xrange(10):
    b.setHigh(pin)
    time.sleep(1)
    print b.getState(pin)
    b.setLow(pin)
    print b.getState(pin)
    time.sleep(1)

b.close()