Strings

[two7]

Is anyone having trouble retrieving strings from pycomm ?

[rkrupnek]

ControlLogix strings can be a bit tricky. pycomm does not really handle the STRING type as a true native type, but I have some code I posted earlier which does the job pretty well. Actually, if anyone else who read the earlier stuff sees this, I have made some improvements. It's just a couple short "add-on" functions for reading / writing strings with pycomm's existing functionality.

Unfortunately, GitHub does considerable violence to the formatting of Python text for inline comments like this, so I'll try to post it in a different way.

***Edit: I just took a screenshot and added below:

[two7]

Thanks rkrupnek, I'll have a look at that and see if I can put it to use. Do you have any documentation on the Ethernet/IP standard?

[rkrupnek]

Cool. Hope you find it useful. Ruscito has this posted on the front GitHub page. I think there is a later version of it available as well: http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/pm/1756-pm020_-en-p.pdf

[ruscito]

ok guys I added two temporary method to read and write string. I was holding off to do so because I wanted to do it right (using read/write fragment wrapped around a "Multiple Service Packet") but is taking longer than what I expected so for the moment this two methods can do the trick. @rkrupnek thanks for