"Temia Eszteri" <lamial...@cleverpun.com> wrote in message news:ra2nu7h75720i75ijhabg12dngrab75...@4ax.com... > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:18:59 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards > <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >>> Can you post a small example showing what you're doing? >> >>The best way to get help is to write as small a program as possible >>that demonstrates the problem, and post it. I'll help you get >>started... >> >>Does this program work? >> >> import serial >> ser = serial.Serial("COM4") >> ser.close() >> >>At the moment, I don't have access to a Windows machine, but I think >>the above should run without any errors. If it works, then you've >>successfully opened and closed the COM4 port. Start adding >>"features", in increments as small as possible, until the program >>fails. >> >>Then try to remove stuff that's not needed while still keeping the >>failure. >> >>IOW, try to find the smallest possible program that fails. >> >>Usually, in the process of doing that, you'll figure out what you were >>doing wrong. If not, post the smallest failing program you can come >>up with, and somebody will be able to help. >> >>If you won't show us what you're doing, we can't tell you what you're >>doing wrong. > > Actually, I believe someone in an earlier thread in the newsgroup or > elsewhere pointed out that serial ports automatically open under > Windows. I'd have to look it back up when I have the time, which I > don't have at the moment, unfortunately. > > ~Temia > -- > The amazing programming device: fuelled entirely by coffee, it codes while > awake and tests while asleep!
Thanks, I think I read that as well but can't recall where. I am just running Python scripts (downloaded), which is not opening the serial port more than once (as Grant keeps assuming). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
