On Sunday 16 August 2009 15:55:31 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-08-15, Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote:
> > I am still confused about pyserial and serial - I found serial > > in my distribution library, (on the SuSe machine, not on the > > 2.5 in Slackware) but I had to download pyserial. > > That's very interesting. Is the pre-existing "serial" a > version of pyserial that the packager had pre-installed or is > it something else? I didn't know any distributions shipped I am not too sure now - when I looked in the packages directory over the weekend it was there. But I am really not sure how it got there - I cannot recall downloading it myself, but that means nothing as I have been using this machine for a while now, so it is possible that I did it some time ago and forgotten about it, without ever using it. Possible, but unlikely. I would like to think that if I downloaded it, I would have tried it, and then I would have remembered. Sorry to be so vague. Does this help? h...@linuxbox:~> python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Dec 6 2008, 10:49:39) [GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import serial >>> dir(serial) ['EIGHTBITS', 'FCNTL', 'FIVEBITS', 'FileLike', 'PARITY_EVEN', 'PARITY_NAMES', 'PARITY_NONE', 'PARITY_ODD', 'SEVENBITS', 'SIXBITS', 'STOPBITS_ONE', 'STOPBITS_TWO', 'Serial', 'SerialBase', 'SerialException', 'SerialTimeoutException', 'TERMIOS', 'TIOCINQ', 'TIOCMBIC', 'TIOCMBIS', 'TIOCMGET', 'TIOCMSET', 'TIOCM_CAR', 'TIOCM_CD', 'TIOCM_CTS', 'TIOCM_DSR', 'TIOCM_DTR', 'TIOCM_DTR_str', 'TIOCM_RI', 'TIOCM_RNG', 'TIOCM_RTS', 'TIOCM_RTS_str', 'TIOCM_zero_str', 'VERSION', 'XOFF', 'XON', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__', 'device', 'errno', 'fcntl', 'os', 'plat', 'portNotOpenError', 'select', 'serialposix', 'serialutil', 'string', 'struct', 'sys', 'termios', 'writeTimeoutError'] >>> serial.VERSION '1.27' - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
