PortIO is a Python front end to the low level functions provided by the C library on Linux 386 platforms for the hardware input and output ports: outb, outw, outl, outsb, outsw, outsl, outb_p, outw_p, outl_p, inb, inw, inl, insb, insw, insl, inb_p, inw_p, inl_p, ioperm, iopl.