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| author | Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net> | 2015-12-17 19:43:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net> | 2015-12-17 19:43:59 +0100 |
| commit | 9ad044afd3ba15749178adb27af2591f2bb1c054 (patch) | |
| tree | 9af7ec4ae712300b70259a43201d199560a29586 /documentation/pyserial_api.rst | |
| parent | 3e02f7052747521a21723a618dccf303065da732 (diff) | |
| download | pyserial-git-9ad044afd3ba15749178adb27af2591f2bb1c054.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/documentation/pyserial_api.rst b/documentation/pyserial_api.rst index 1b15762..a3f2ae8 100644 --- a/documentation/pyserial_api.rst +++ b/documentation/pyserial_api.rst @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ Native ports In case a write timeout is configured for the port and the time is exceeded. - Write the string *data* to the port. + Write the bytes *data* to the port. This should be of type ``bytes`` + (or compatible such as ``bytearray`` or ``memoryview``). Unicode + strings must be encoded (e.g. ``'hello'.encode('utf-8'``). .. versionchanged:: 2.5 Accepts instances of :class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray` when |