Does GPIO Driving example (Python) work?

I have been looking at elinux.org/RPi_Low_Level_peripherals#GPIO and have been successful in controlling the GPIO using the Shell script example.

However I want to use Python to write a program and have not been able to get their example to work. I have downloaded the module RPiGPIO-0.4.1a.tar.gz and unzipped it into /usr/lib/python2.7 but there in no sign of the GPIO.pyc files, etc that I would expect to see. Has anyone been able to get this to work , and, if so, what do I need to do. Thanks

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wallarug over 13 years ago

You shouldn't see any examples or scripts as far as I know. You need to add the line:
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
To the top of your script and edit away from there.
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cityswift over 13 years ago in reply to wallarug

Thanks for your reply. When I do the import command I get the message "No module named RPi.GPIO". I know from previous work on modules that each one has a file (module name).py associated with it for it to work and that is why I am puzzled that the unzip does not create one??
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cityswift over 13 years ago in reply to wallarug

Thanks for your reply. When I do the import command I get the message "No module named RPi.GPIO". I know from previous work on modules that each one has a file (module name).py associated with it for it to work and that is why I am puzzled that the unzip does not create one??
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to cityswift
You could also try installing via these instructions:

http://learn.adafruit.com/send-raspberry-pi-data-to-cosm/necessary-packages

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo easy_install -U distribute
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install rpi.gpio
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anhtien over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

I got mine to work with python, you can check my blog HERE
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cityswift over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

Thanks Drew everything went ok except that I had to update "easy-install -U distribute" from root as part of the process. RPi.GPIO is now working OK but you do have to specify the pin mode - BOARD or BCM - to use it.
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