NI Modular Instruments Python Documentation

Intro

nimi-python is a collection of Python modules that provide an interface to the underlying NI driver. Currently, the following drivers are supported:

  • NI-DCPower (Python module: nidcpower)
  • NI-DMM (Python module: nidmm)
  • NI-FGEN (Python module: nifgen)
  • NI-SCOPE (Python module: niscope)
  • NI-SWITCH (Python module: niswitch)
  • NI Switch Executive (Python module: nise)
  • NI-ModInst (Python module: nimodinst)
  • NI-TClk (Python module: nitclk)

nimi-python supports all the Operating Systems supported by the underlying driver.

nimi-python supports Python 2.7, 3.4 and later using CPython or PyPy.

Installation

Driver specific installation instructions can be found on Read The Docs:

Contributing

We welcome contributions! You can clone the project repository, build it, and install it by following these instructions.

Support / Feedback

The packages included in nimi-python package are supported by NI. For support, open a request through the NI support portal at ni.com.

Bugs / Feature Requests

To report a bug or submit a feature request specific to NI Modular Instruments Python bindings (nimi-python), please use the GitHub issues page.

Fill in the issue template as completely as possible and we will respond as soon as we can.

For hardware support or any other questions not specific to this GitHub project, please visit [NI Community Forums](https://forums.ni.com/).

Documentation

Documentation is available here.

Additional Documentation

Refer to your driver documentation for device-specific information and detailed API documentation.

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