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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"State of output pins is not persistent","articleBody":"The state of the an output is not persistent.  The code below will set GPIO pin 0 to high. I expected the pin to stay high after this little script has finished. But that is not the case. I found out that the value of the pin drops to low when Python leaves the context manager.\n\nWhen Python leaves the context manager, [PinApi.__close__()](https://github.com/quick2wire/quick2wire-python-api/blob/master/quick2wire/gpio.py#L48) is called and this method eventually [changes the direction of the pin to input](https://github.com/quick2wire/quick2wire-python-api/blob/master/quick2wire/gpio.py#L113).\n\n```\nfrom quick2wire.gpio import pins, Out\nfrom time import sleep\nwith pins.pin(0, direction=Out) as pin:\n    pin.value = 1\n    sleep(1)\n# Pin drops to low.\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/OrangeTux","@type":"Person","name":"OrangeTux"},"datePublished":"2014-10-05T13:03:50.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/55/quick2wire-python-api/issues/55"}