<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 3, 2005, at 2:05 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Because "import serial" imports whatever thing it finds named serial, and it's not finding PySerial because you have a module named serial.py. If the PySerial documentation says "name your script serial.py", then it's dumb because that won't work.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-bob</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>It didn't give any example filename. I wish to test something involving a serial port before going in to full development, hence the Python usage and hence "serial.py" seemed a fairly logical name based on what I was trying to do. Thanks for the explanation of why I shouldn't have done that.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have now renamed it to "my_test.py" and am now getting somewhere. No errors at least. I was sure it was something basic and obvious (to a Python developer) and I was right. I'll remember that one for sure.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks also to Robert for giving me the same advice.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/MB</DIV></BODY></HTML>