The python-can library provides Controller Area Network support for Python, providing common abstractions to different hardware devices, and a suite of utilities for sending and receiving messages …

Installing python-can in development mode ¶ A “development” install of this package allows you to make changes locally or pull updates from the Git repository and use them without having to reinstall.

The created bus is then able to handle the interface specific software/hardware interactions while giving the user the same top level API. A thread safe bus wrapper is also available, see Thread safe bus. …

Important python-can versions before 2.2 had two different implementations named socketcan_ctypes and socketcan_native. These were removed in version 4.0.0 after a deprecation period.

The arbitration_id field in a CAN message may be either 11 bits (standard addressing, CAN 2.0A) or 29 bits (extended addressing, CAN 2.0B) in length, and python-can exposes this difference with the …

Configuration ¶ Usually this library is used with a particular CAN interface, this can be specified in code, read from configuration files or environment variables. See can.util.load_config() for implementation. …

The python-can library provides Controller Area Network support for Python, providing common abstractions to different hardware devices, and a suite of utilities for sending and receiving messages …

Library API ¶ The main objects are the Bus and the Message. A form of CAN interface is also required.

Specify the application name as app_name='Your app name' when constructing the bus or in a config file. Channel should be given as a list of channels starting at 0. Here is an example configuration file …

PCAN Basic API ¶ Interface to Peak-System ’s PCAN-Basic API. Configuration ¶ Here is an example configuration file for using PCAN-USB: