The old method only worked out of the box if you were running Python
2.1 on a 586. I imagine that is too small a slice of current users to
be worth hard coding ;).
This avoids:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File ".../mmap.py", line 96, in prepare_cmd
C.scan_begin_arg = 1e9/freq
...
TypeError: in method 'comedi_cmd_struct_scan_begin_arg_set',
argument 2 of type 'unsigned int'
With the previous implementation, `mmap` was importing the demo
script, not the standard `mmap` library module. From the docs [1]:
The directory containing the script being run is placed at the
beginning of the search path, ahead of the standard library
path. This means that scripts in that directory will be loaded
instead of modules of the same name in the library directory.
I'm not sure when this changed in Python, since the demo script
presumably worked with an earlier version.
[1]: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path
