How can I enumerate (list) serial ports?

[Jason]

On Jun 18, 2:20 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> but I imagine that, behind the scenes, it's doing some sort
> of conditional imports according to platform.

I have, and yes indeed it does.

> I imagine you'd
> have to do something similar to get a list of port names.

That's what I thought, although I might just defer to the user knowing
what to type in (since they would have to identify the port allocated
to the device in the first place).

> On Windows, WMI can give you what you want. Look at the
> Win32_SerialPort class. Hopefully, someone else can help
> for other platforms.

Thanks for this pointer :)

Cheers,
Jason