psSerial: how to write a single byte value to the serial port?

Tim Hoffman timh at zute.net
Wed Nov 17 04:08:42 EST 2004


SoftwareTester wrote:
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ 
> example shows how to write string to serial port.
> 
> 
> #Open port 0 at "9600,8,N,1", no timeout
> 
> 
>>>>import serial
>>>>ser = serial.Serial(0) #open first serial 
>>>>ser.write("hello") #write a string
>>>>ser.close() #close port
> 
> 
> how do i write a single byte value to the serial port?

mystring = "hello"
ser.write(mystring[0:1])

or

ser.write("h")

or

ser.write(chr(i))   # where 0<=i<=255

Is that what you where asking for ?

T



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