Communicating with serial port

[Mark Hammond]

Peter Blom wrote:

> I shall write a python program for downloading data from a memory card in a
> measuring instrument, via a serial port.
> For this purpose, I have downloaded SioModule.zip - a serial comm extension
> for windows 95, upgraded to Python 1.5.1.
> This does not seem to work - when importing the module 'serial.py', my
> system hangs (Windows 98, Activestate Python 2.0).
> Could anybody give a hint?
> 
> Peter (a newbie)

I dont know where an SioModule that works with Python 2.0 can be found. 
  It sounds like you found a 1.5.1 version, but are trying to use it 
with Python 2.0.

Check out win32\demos\win32comport_Demo.py for an alternative way of 
hitting the serial port on Windows.

Mark.