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diff --git a/documentation/appendix.rst b/documentation/appendix.rst index 9c216f8..487a334 100644 --- a/documentation/appendix.rst +++ b/documentation/appendix.rst @@ -34,6 +34,33 @@ Test your setup. though). +URL handlers +============ +``serial_for_url`` can be used to access "virtual" serial ports identified by +an URL scheme. E.g. for the RFC 2217, ``rfc2217:://``. + +Custom URL handlers can be added in the ``serial.urlhandler`` directory. +Modules must be named ``protocol_xxx.py`` where ``xxx`` is the part that is +used in the URL (``xxx://``). + +This is possible starting from pySerial V2.6. + + +py2exe +====== +py2exe and similar packaging programs scan the sources for import statements +and create a list of modules that they package. pySerial may create two issues +with that: + +- implementations for other modules are found. On Windows, it's save to exclude + 'serialposix', 'serialjava' and 'serialcli' as these are not used. + +- ``serial_for_url`` does a dynamic lookup of protocol handlers at runtime. + If this function is used, the desired handlers have to be included manually + (e.g. 'serial.urlhandler.protocol_socket', + 'serial.urlhandler.protocol_rfc2217', etc.) + + Related software ================ diff --git a/documentation/index.rst b/documentation/index.rst index bfdd59f..ed306ba 100644 --- a/documentation/index.rst +++ b/documentation/index.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Other pages (online) - `project page on SourceForge`_ - `SVN repository`_ - `Download Page`_ with releases -- This page, when viewed online is at http://pyserial.sf.net. +- This page, when viewed online, is at http://pyserial.sf.net. .. _`project page on SourceForge`: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/ .. _`SVN repository`: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=46487 |