pyserial doesn't recognize virtual serial port

[naveen.sabapathy at gmail.com]

Hi Grant,
  It worked... I had the same suspicion and changed the port names to
COM2 and COM4 and it worked.

--NS
On Oct 12, 8:34 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2007-10-12, naveen.sabapa... at gmail.com <naveen.sabapa... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   I am trying to use virtual serial ports to develop/test my serial
> > communication program. Running in to trouble...
>
> >   I am using com0com to create the virtual ports. The virtual ports
> > seem to be working fine when I test it with Hyperterminal.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "virtual ports".  I've used
> pyserial with several different network attached devices that
> provide drivers that make them appear as COMnn devices under
> windows.  I never had any problems.
>
>
>
> > I am using the example program that comes with pyserial, as below.
> > ---------------
> > import serial
> > ser = serial.Serial('CNCA0') #open virtual serial port
> > print ser.portstr            #check which port was realy used
> > ser.write("Hello")           #write a string
> > ser.close()                  #close port
> > -----------------
>
> > The following is the error message:
>
> > --------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Python25\Naveen Files\TestSerial", line 2, in <module>
> >     ser = serial.Serial('CNCA0') #open first serial port
> >   File "c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\serial\serialutil.py", line 156,
> > in __init__
> >     self.open()
> >   File "c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\serial\serialwin32.py", line 55,
> > in open
> >     raise SerialException("could not open port: %s" % msg)
> > SerialException: could not open port: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system
> > cannot find the file specified.')
> > --------------
>
> If you specify a filename that the OS doesn't recognize there's
> nothing pyserial can do about it.
>
> > When I try with 'COM3', which comes inbuilt in my laptop, COM3 is
> > recognized. Few other posts on the web seem to indicate pyserial
> > should work fine with virtual serial ports. What am I missing?
>
> My guess is you're not spelling the device name correctly.
> Device names under Windows are even more screwed up than the
> rest of the OS.  By default there are a limited set of devices
> with specially mapped "DOS compatible" names such as LPT1,
> COM3, etc.  My guess is that the device you're attempting to
> use doesn't have a name that's mapped to the DOS-compatible
> namespace as CNCA0.
>
> You could try using the name \\.\CNCA0
>
> Or you could try to figure otu how to map the device into the
> DOS namespace as CNCA0.
>
> You could also try running some sort of system call trace on
> HyperTerminal to find out what name it's using to open the
> device when you tell it to use port CNCA0.
>
> Or you could just give up and switch to Linux.  [That's what
> I'd recommend, personally.]
>
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