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Diffstat (limited to 'serial/serialwin32.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | serial/serialwin32.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/serial/serialwin32.py b/serial/serialwin32.py index bb1a15f..9a62fa0 100644 --- a/serial/serialwin32.py +++ b/serial/serialwin32.py @@ -356,7 +356,11 @@ class Win32Serial(SerialBase): win32.SetupComm(self.hComPort, rx_size, tx_size) def setXON(self, level=True): - """Platform specific - set flow state.""" + """\ + Manually control flow - when software flow control is enabled. + This will send XON (true) and XOFF (false) to the other device. + WARNING: this function is not portable to different platforms! + """ if not self.hComPort: raise portNotOpenError if level: win32.EscapeCommFunction(self.hComPort, win32.SETXON) |