with open('com1', 'r') as f:

[Christian Heimes]

gert wrote:
> I do understand, and I went looking into pySerial, but it is a long
> way from getting compatible with python3.x and involves other libs
> that are big and non pyhton3.x compatible.

So don't use Python 3.0. Most people are still using Python 2.5 or 2.6.

Christian