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authorcliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a>2005-03-26 00:06:18 +0000
committercliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a>2005-03-26 00:06:18 +0000
commit6a7e29e0fa0ed579e035e7543e35ac4db8f4e0bf (patch)
tree3cb34390ead65364e02c12fbf9512758fb785bb2
parentd8c1acdb6a7de35c23a4a89e46334525955eeed2 (diff)
downloadpyserial-6a7e29e0fa0ed579e035e7543e35ac4db8f4e0bf.tar.gz
desciptive exception when giveio is required but not installed
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyserial/code/trunk@138 f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a
-rw-r--r--pyparallel/parallel/parallelwin32.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pyparallel/parallel/parallelwin32.py b/pyparallel/parallel/parallelwin32.py
index 5c287cb..5754578 100644
--- a/pyparallel/parallel/parallelwin32.py
+++ b/pyparallel/parallel/parallelwin32.py
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ os.environ['PATH'] = os.environ['PATH'] + ';' + os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(
#python extension in earlier versions of this modules
_pyparallel = ctypes.windll.simpleio
#need to initialize giveio on WinNT based systems
-_pyparallel.init()
+if _pyparallel.init():
+ raise IOError('Could not access the giveio driver which is required on NT based systems.')
class Parallel: