Instrumental drivers allow you to control and read data from various hardware devices.
Some devices (e.g. Thorlabs cameras) have drivers that act as wrappers to their drivers' C bindings, using ctypes or cffi. Others (e.g. Tektronix scopes and AFGs) utilize VISA and PyVISA, its Python wrapper. PyVISA requires a local installation of the VISA library (e.g. NI-VISA) to interface with connected devices.
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instrumental.drivers
>>> from instrumental import instrument >>> scope = instrument('my_scope_alias') >>> x, y = scope.get_data()