SocketCAN (python) — python-can 1.4 documentation

SocketCAN (python)¶ Python 3.3 added support for socketcan for linux systems. The socketcan_native interface directly uses Python’s socket module to access SocketCAN on linux. This is the most direct route to the kernel and should provide the most responsive. The implementation features efficient filtering of can_id’s, this filtering occurs in the kernel and is much much more efficient than filter