pyserial script doesnt execute properly

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:22 -0300, kishore <kishoreinme at gmail.com>
escribió:
>>
>> > Iam using python 2.5.4
>> > pyserial  2.4
>> > pywin32-214
>> > on windows 7
>>
>> > i hav a small test script written to query a serial device (arduino)
>> > and get back reply appropriately
>>
>
> Thanks for your response
> i tried closing idle and the following code prints
> port opened
> Write failed
>
> code:
>
> import serial
> import time
> ser=serial.Serial(port='\\.\COM2', baudrate=9600)

If you want a string containing these 8 characters \\.\COM2 you have to
write it either as r'\\.\COM2' or '\\\\.\\COM2'

> if ser:
> 	print 'port opened'

Either the Serial object is constructed and returned, or an exception is
raised. 'if ser:' has no sense; Python is not C...

> ser.open()
> if ser.write('1'):
> 	print 'Write success'
> else:
> 	print 'write failed'

The write method, when successful, implicitly returns None. None has a
false boolean value, so your code will always print 'write failed'.

Usually, in Python, error conditions are marked by raising an exception.
Using return values to indicate success/failure is uncommon.

Also, are you sure the device doesn't expect a newline character? '1\n'?

You may need to call ser.flushOutput() to ensure the output buffer is
actually emptied.

> time.sleep(1)
> a=ser.readline()

print repr(a)

> time.sleep(1)
> b=ser.readline()

print repr(b)

> ser.close()

> I believe this might be a serial port access error.
> how to solve this?
> Any suggestions?

I don't think so. If you could not access the serial port, you'd have seen
an IOError exception or similar.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina