Cross platform serial library?

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Cameron Laird writes:
>I'm optimistic that an effort to write a cross-platform library
>would win support--maybe even workers!--from several camps, perhaps
>including also PHP and Lua.  I don't think this would have happened

	I don't think a cross-platform C library is required; at least
on Unix, most of the pieces are already implementable in a scripting
language, because all you need is access to open(2), read(2), and
write(2), plus a termios module.  Full serial support might expose
deficiencies in Python's POSIX support: functions that aren't wrapped,
missing constants, etc.  Other platforms may need to sit on top of
platform-specific libraries, of course.

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