Accessing Windows Serial Port

[George T.]

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.  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?

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

Thanks
George T.