Accessing Windows Serial Port

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-02-06, George T. <georgetoffer1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I need to access the serial port via python on a windows machine.
> Reading on the web, there are three solutions:  pyserial, siomodule and
> USPP.

You can also just use win32 stuff directly (CreateFile et al).

> pyserial seems to be the best option since the other two are
> tested with Windows 95 and older versions of python.  Would you agree
> with this or have I missed an option?

I've used PySerial and win32 system calls.  I've never used the
other two.  Try pyserial first.  If you need lower level
control than that gives you, use win32 calls.

> Can anyone provide me an example of how to access the serial port with
> pyserial?

http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/

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