WiringPi: An implementation of most of the Arduino Wiring functions for the Raspberry Pi WiringPi2: WiringPi version 2 implements new functions for managing IO expanders. Prerequisites: You must have python-dev and python-setuptools installed If you manually rebuild the bindings with swig -python wiringpi.i then cat wiringpi_class.py >> wiringpi.py to get the class-based wrapper Get/setup repo: git clone https://github.com/Gadgetoid/WiringPi2-Python.git cd WiringPi2-Python Build & install with: sudo python setup.py install Or Python 3 sudo python3 setup.py install Class-based Usage: No classes have been created for this version yet. Usage: import wiringpi wiringpi.wiringPiSetup // For sequential pin numbering, one of these MUST be called before using IO functions OR wiringpi.wiringPiSetupSys // For /sys/class/gpio with GPIO pin numbering OR wiringpi.wiringPiSetupGpio // For GPIO pin numbering Setting up IO expanders (This example was tested on a quick2wire board with one digital IO expansion board connected via I2C): wiringpi.mcp23017Setup(65,0x20) wiringpi.pinMode(65,1) wiringpi.digitalWrite(65,1) General IO: wiringpi.pinMode(1,1) // Set pin 1 to output wiringpi.digitalWrite(1,1) // Write 1 HIGH to pin 1 wiringpi.digitalRead(1) // Read pin 1 Bit shifting: wiringpi.shiftOut(1,2,0,123) // Shift out 123 (b1110110, byte 0-255) to data pin 1, clock pin 2 Serial: serial = wiringpi.serialOpen('/dev/ttyAMA0',9600) // Requires device/baud and returns an ID wiringpi.serialPuts(serial,"hello") wiringpi.serialClose(serial) // Pass in ID Full details at: http://www.wiringpi.com