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  • User guide
    • Installation
    • Configuring the backend
    • Communicating with your instrument
    • A more complex example
    • Reading and Writing values
    • Event handling
    • Resources
    • PyVISA Shell
    • VISA resource names
  • Advanced topics
  • FAQ
  • API Documentation
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User guide

This section of the documentation will focus on getting you started with PyVISA. The following sections will cover how to install and configure the library, how to communicate with your instrument and how to debug standard communications issues.

  • Installation
    • Backend
    • Testing your installation
    • Using the development version
  • Configuring the backend
    • Configuring the IVI backend
  • Communicating with your instrument
    • An example
    • Getting the instrument configuration right
  • A more complex example
  • Reading and Writing values
    • Reading ASCII values
    • Reading binary values
    • Writing ASCII values
    • Writing binary values
    • When things are not what they should be
  • Event handling
    • Waiting on events using a queue
    • Registering handlers for event
  • Resources
    • Attributes of Resource
    • Attributes of MessageBase resources
    • VISA attributes
  • PyVISA Shell
    • PyVisa Shell Backends
    • PyVisa Info
    • Summary
  • VISA resource names
    • VISA Resource Syntax and Examples
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