PyQt5: is the wrapper incomplete?

[Vincent Vande Vyvre]

Le 16/06/2016 04:54, jladasky at itu.edu a écrit :
> I am developing a data acquisition system for a custom device that communicates over USB.  On the host computer side, I am using PyQt5.4.  My Linux box has both Qt4 and Qt5 installed on it.  I assume that PyQt5.4 compiled on top of Qt5 automatically.  I'm not sure how to check that.
>
> In any case, I used PySerial to handle the USB communication.  I just noticed that Qt also has serial features.  I need to give the completed program to other users, on Windows no less.  If I can forego PySerial and use Qt's serial interface instead, it would simplify the installation.
>
> Now, the PyQt5 documentation implies that a module called QtSerial exists.  But while I can write...
>
> from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (...), or
> from PyQt5.QtGui import (...), or
> from PyQt5.QtCore import (...),
>
> ...attempting to import from PyQt5.QtSerial raises an ImportError.
>
> I've tried many variations on the spelling, and I've tried various import statements to inspect the (very large and complex) PyQt5 namespace.  I haven't found the QtSerial classes.  Are they even there?  Maybe the wrapping of the library is incomplete?
>
> Any guidance is appreciated, thanks!

On Debian, this is a separate package python3-pyqt5.qtserialport, I 
don't know for other Linux

After install you can use:

from PyQt5.QtSeriaPort import QSerialPort

Vincent