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pymeasure.adapters
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The adapter classes allow the instruments to be independent of the communication method used.
The instrument implementation takes care of any potential quirks in its communication protocol (see :ref:`advanced_communication_protocols`), and the adapter takes care of the details of the over-the-wire communication with the hardware device.
In the vast majority of cases, it will be sufficient to pass a connection string or integer to the instrument (see :ref:`connecting-to-an-instrument`), which uses the :class:`pymeasure.adapters.VISAAdapter` in the background.

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Adapter base class
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.Adapter
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VISA adapter
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.VISAAdapter
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Serial adapter
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.SerialAdapter
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    :private-members: _format_binary_values

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Prologix adapter
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.PrologixAdapter
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    :private-members: _format_binary_values

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Test adapters
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These pieces are useful when writing tests.

.. automodule:: pymeasure.test
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.ProtocolAdapter
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.adapters.FakeAdapter
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.. autoclass:: pymeasure.generator.Generator
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