[Q] can PySerial work with a USB to serial adapter ?

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Are you sure it's locate on com1? I've used such a device on win2k and the
drivers for the adapter set it up as com6 by default. I used pyserial to
access it just fine.
-jeff
"Rikko" <riknessa at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello python minded,
> I'm trying to use PySerial with Python 2.2.2 on an XP system
> with a USB to RS232 adapter.
> Upon opening the port (making an instance of the Serial class)
> the system return the error message "unable to open file",
> thereby referring to the COM1 port used.
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> Is it ME who's goofing thing up or what?
> With kind regards, Rik.
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