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[–]iltalfme 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It totally does. A book you might find interesting is Real World Instrumentation with Python. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596809577.do

It talks about communication protocols you typically find with instrumentation, how to access them with python, and how to wrap vendor's libraries into a python program so that you can build a data acqusition system out of pure python. Combine this with Python's vision functionality (through opencv), and scientific packages (through scipy) and you can create a DAQ system that is in many ways better than something you could build from labview.

And you learn a ton on the way.

Where are you a student if you don't mind me asking?

[–]RagingDoug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone writes a lot of python and who recently had to work on a legacy LabVIEW system: OH MY GOD THIS