[Pythonmac-SIG] PySerial not working on Tiger

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sep 2, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:

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> On Sep 3, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>> Don't name your module serial.
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> Is there any particular reason why? The PySerial website (http:// 
> pyserial.sourceforge.net/) seems to think that it works and all I  
> have done is try to follow the examples.

Because "import serial" imports whatever thing it finds named serial,  
and it's not finding PySerial because you have a module named  
serial.py.  If the PySerial documentation says "name your script  
serial.py", then it's dumb because that won't work.

-bob

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