Reading from the serial port?

[Isaac Barona]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:41:05 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards)
wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:08:25 GMT, Luis Rojas <shadow at codetel.net.do> wrote:
>
>>I know this is probably a stupid question but how do i read the serial port
>>or send information to it... i am new at this python stuff and i havent been
>>able to find anything about serial port programing.
>
>There are a couple different serial-port wrapper packages that
>make it easier to do serial port stuff.  Under Unix, access to
>the serial port is exactly the same as when you use C:
>open/ioctl/tcgetattr/read/write.  I've written a serial port
>class for Posix serial ports.  It's at 
>
>  ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/python/PosixSerial.py
>
>Using the Win32all package from ActiveState.com, you can access
>a Win32 serial port using standard Win32 semantics (there are
>examples in the Win32all package). There is also a Win32 serial
>port package somewhere, but the last time I tried to find it I
>couldn't.
>
>Somebody recently wrote a cross-platform serial package that
>has the same semantics under Unix and Win32.  I don't have a
>reference, but if you search comp.lang.pythong for subjects
>containing "serial" you'll probably find it.

The package is called USPP (Universal Serial Port Python) Library. 
You can get it from :

http://balder.prohosting.com/ibarona/en/python/uspp/uspp_en.html


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