Serial Port communication

[Warren Postma]

"Grant Edwards" <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote in message
news:slrn8s2t3j.88s.nobody at isis.visi.com...
> In article <8pric7$bn2 at news.or.intel.com>, Brian Geddes wrote:
>
> >All - I'm looking for a way to communicate through the serial port from
> >inside of a Python script.  Ideally, I'd be able to open it and treat it
> >like a file stream...anyone know how to do this?
>
> Serial port stuff under Python is OS-specific.  Which OS are you using?
>

Anyone else think this is bad? I would like a standard serial module for
both Unix and Win32 for starters.
Anyone done this already?

Warren