Calling teststand engine from python - is it going to be supported as good as in .Net/labVIEW?

[Michałek]

hi,

a question is in the subject. the reason is that is a bit annoying to call it through win32com (especially that I have problems to install those libs - "no matching distribution found for") since it looks that there won't be any code completion support.

[WireWeaver]

I can't share detailed roadmap info but we're always looking to improve our API support. A few questions:

• What are you hoping to use the API for?
  • Building a python based operator interface
  • Using the API inside of a TestStand Code Module
  • Using the API to create utility scripts (generate or modify sequences programmatically, etc...)
  • Anything else?
• How would you expect to access an instance of the Engine from Python?
  • From a single interpreter
  • From multiple interpreters on the same PC
  • From multiple interpreters on different PCs
  • Anything else?

Thanks,

Trent

[Michałek]

For now I am considering "simple" usage: analyse sequences (i.e. get some data, sum it and store into tables etc.), generate/modify sequences. So no operator interface and for now single interpreter should be sufficient.