with open('com1', 'r') as f:

[gert]

On Apr 5, 12:24 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:11:12 -0300, gert <gert.cuyk... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > On Apr 4, 5:20 pm, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kuma... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:10:36 +0200
> >> Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> >> > gert wrote:
> >> > > I do understand, and I went looking into pySerial, but it is a long
> >> > > way from getting compatible with python3.x and involves other libs
> >> > > that are big and non pyhton3.x compatible.
>
> >> > So don't use Python 3.0. Most people are still using Python 2.5 or
> >> > 2.6.
>
> >> Alternatively, you could look into the pySerial source and find out
> >> what it does.
>
> > I think pywin32 is the way they do the things I want. Witch is not
> > python3 ready and way to much work around to do it clean. Using ctypes
> > is a option but you have to really know what you are doing and what
> > you are looking for.
>
> The last pywin32 release (213) does work with Python 3.
> If you can wait a few days, I'm working on a proper port of pyserial.  
> Preliminary testing shows it's working fine on Windows. Basically, I've  
> modified the read/write methods to use bytes instead of str, and 2to3 did  
> the rest:
>
> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit  
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> p3> import serial
> p3> ser = serial.Serial(2)
> p3> ser.write(b"ATI7\r\n")
> p3> for line in ser: print(line.rstrip().decode("ascii","replace"))
> ...
> ATI7
>
> Configuration Profile...
>
> Product type           US/Canada Internal
> Options                V32bis,V.FC,V.34+
> Fax Options            Class 1/Class 2.0
> Clock Freq             92.0Mhz
> Line Options           Caller ID,Distinctive Ring
> Voice Options          Speakerphone,TAD
> Eprom                  256k
> Ram                    64k
>
> EPROM date             5/13/96
> DSP date               5/13/96
>
> EPROM rev              2.0
> DSP rev                2.0
>
> OK
> ^C

Great seeing evolution in action, the answer I was hoping for :)