First version, based on https://github.com/adesutherland/HercControl, simplified and rewritten in Python with no dependencies.

Author: RossPatterson

.flake8

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+[flake8]
+extend-exclude =
+	.git,
+	__pycache__,
+	.venv,
+extend-ignore =
+	E203,
+	E501,
+max-line-length = 120

.github/workflows/on_push.yml

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+name: Test PyHercControl
+
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+
+# Test the tool
+  test:
+    name: Test
+    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
+    # container: rosspatterson/vm370:builder
+    services:
+     vm370:
+       image: rosspatterson/vm370:latest
+       ports:
+         - 8038:8038
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+    
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+          chmod +x PyHercControl/src/herccontrol PyHercControl/tests/basictest.sh
+          cp PyHercControl/src/herccontrol .
+          ./herccontrol -v
+          ./herccontrol -h
+          # (cd /opt/hercules/vm370 ; hercules -f hercules.conf -d &)
+          # sleep 15
+          ./PyHercControl/tests/basictest.sh
+        shell: bash

LICENSE

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+This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
+
+Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
+distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
+binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
+means.
+
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+software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
+of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
+successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
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+
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+
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