[Pythonmac-SIG] PySerial not working on Tiger

[Mark Baxter]

On Sep 3, 2005, at 2:05 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> Because "import serial" imports whatever thing it finds named  
> serial, and it's not finding PySerial because you have a module  
> named serial.py.  If the PySerial documentation says "name your  
> script serial.py", then it's dumb because that won't work.
>
> -bob
>

It didn't give any example filename. I wish to test something  
involving a serial port before going in to full development, hence  
the Python usage and hence "serial.py" seemed a fairly logical name  
based on what I was trying to do. Thanks for the explanation of why I  
shouldn't have done that.

I have now renamed it to "my_test.py" and am now getting somewhere.  
No errors at least. I was sure it was something basic and obvious (to  
a Python developer) and I was right. I'll remember that one for sure.

Thanks also to Robert for giving me the same advice.

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