Luckily, [cibomahto] figured out how to use a Rigol scope with Python, allowing for easy remote viewing and control of a Rigol 1052E ‘scope on any desktop computer.

In Python 2.x, names outside the local scope are wholly inaccessible except by passing them in, unless they happen to be in the global scope. I have a ...

To open a connection to a scope in Python, you will first need to import pyvisa. After that, you’ll create a resource manager and pass it a special open string.