The state of pySerial

[Terry Jan Reedy]

On 5/29/2013 3:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-05-29, Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> pySerial is probably "the solution" for serial port programming.
>> Physical serial port is dead on PC but USB-to-Serial give it a second
>> life. Serial port stuff won't interest end users at all. But it is
>> still used in the EE world and so on. Arduino uses it to upload
>> programs. Sensors may use serial port to communicate with PC. GSM
>> Modem also uses serial port to communicate with PC.
>>
>> Unforunately, pySerial project doesn't seem to have a good state. I
>> find pySerial + Python 3.3 broken on my machine (Python 2.7 is OK) .
>> There are unanswered outstanding bugs, PyPI page has 2.6 while SF
>> homepage still gives 2.5.
>>
>> Any idea?
>
> Volunteer as a maintainer and start fixing bugs?

It seems to be getting around 200 downloands a day. Quite worth someone 
supporting it.

> I use pyserial regularly, and the current version works fine for me,
> but I'm using Python 2.7. There are still too many libraries that
> don't support 3.x for me to consider using 3.x for real work.

The only download is a .exe. It it just the executable binary or is that 
a zip unpacker with source?