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

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Nov 17 22:44:57 EST 2004


On 2004-11-18, SoftwareTester <mr_ravi_patil at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> >>> type(byte)
>> <type 'str'>
>> 
>> Its a string as well.
>
> I am concerned because I do not know the effect of writing null
> character to the device connected to the serial byte.

I don't understand what you're concerned about.  Python doesn't
use null-delimited strings.

> I wish to send a single byte to the serial port and nothing more.

In Python, a "single byte" is just a string of length one.

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