"Joe G (Home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have installed Python for windows today from the python web site .I also > installed > pySerial using the Windows installer from the sourceforge web site..... You need to read the pySerial smallprint, where it says: "The files in this package are 100% pure Python. They depend on non standard but common packages on Windows (pywin32) and Jython (JavaComm). POSIX (Linux, BSD) uses only modules from the standard Python distribution)" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list