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| author | cliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a> | 2003-11-06 22:17:21 +0000 |
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| committer | cliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a> | 2003-11-06 22:17:21 +0000 |
| commit | f95f2b719d401a94bfcaa84f55530888d125c5f7 (patch) | |
| tree | a1699f3d6698c2665092a0580e44daa3de10a7d1 /README.txt | |
| parent | 2d5d57bb76802b251a2d2f693930597872857c45 (diff) | |
| download | pyserial-f95f2b719d401a94bfcaa84f55530888d125c5f7.tar.gz | |
2.0 release
changed the setup.py version hack to the recomended code in the distutils docs
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyserial/code/trunk/pyserial@101 f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ Project Homepage: pyserial.sourceforge.net Features -------- - same class based interface on all supported platforms +- access to the port settings trough Python 2.2 properties - port numbering starts at zero, no need to know the platform dependant port name in the user program - port name can be specified if access through numbering is inappropriate - support for different bytesizes, stopbits, parity and flow control - with RTS/CTS and/or xon/xoff + with RTS/CTS and/or Xon/Xoff - working with or without receive timeout, blocking or non-blocking - file like API with "read" and "write" ("readline" etc. also supported) - The files in this package are 100% pure Python. @@ -45,6 +46,12 @@ let Distutils do the rest: "python setup.py install" The files get installed in the "Lib/site-packages" directory. +There is also a Windows installer, but for developers it may be interesting +to get the source archive anyway, because it contains examples and the readme. + +Do also have a look at the example files in the examples directory in the +source distribution or online in CVS repository. + Serial to USB adapters ---------------------- Such adapters are reported to work under Mac OSX and Windows. They are @@ -128,7 +135,9 @@ ser = serial.Serial( rtscts=0, #enable RTS/CTS flow control ) -The port is immediately opened on object creation. +The port is immediately opened on object creation, if a port is given. +It is not opened if port is None. + Options for read timeout: timeout=None #wait forever timeout=0 #non-blocking mode (return immediately on read) @@ -169,9 +178,12 @@ bytesize #bytesize in bits parity #parity setting stopbits #stop bit with (1,2) timeout #timeout setting -xonxoff #if XonXoff flow control is enabled +xonxoff #if Xon/Xoff flow control is enabled rtscts #if hardware flow control is enabled +Exceptions +---------- +serial.SerialException Constants --------- |