[PYTHONMAC-SIG] serial communications

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Jesse Bregman <jbregman@mail.arc.nasa.gov> said:
> I know this must be possible, but I haven't found information anywhere
> about how to do serial communications using Python.  I am used to Basic's
> method of treating the serial port as a file, then just reading or writing
> to it as if it were any other file.  Does anyone know of a similarly easy
> way to do this with Python?

Yes, look at the ctb module. You can't read the serial port as if it
were a file, but it is pretty easy to write a wrapper object in Python
that would allow you to do this.
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