serial port problem

[Chris Liechti]

sehamran at frisurf.no (seh) wrote in 
news:7557b51f.0205161012.18df5304 at posting.google.com:
> I am trying to get my serial port working with python.
> 
> I have installed and tried USPP, Sio32 and Pyserial. All of them
> installs nicely and I get no errors using the commands. The only
> problem is that my instrument in the other end does not respond to the
> commands. I have tried on two different laptops one with W2000 and the
> other with NT4.0.

i'm using pyserial on linux, win98, NT4, 2000. can you post a short example 
of non working code?
 
> When I do the same thing in Matlab on the same pc everything is
> working nicely.
> 
> Does anybody has any ideas on what I do wrong or what I do not do? Any
> ideas on how to debug the problem?

connect a terminal to the serial port and look what it sends.

> Svein-Erik
> 

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>