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Overview

This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends for Python_ running on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant system) and IronPython. The module named "serial" automatically selects the appropriate backend.

• Project Homepage: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial
• Download Page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial

BSD license, (C) 2001-2020 Chris Liechti [email protected]

Documentation

For API documentation, usage and examples see files in the "documentation" directory. The ".rst" files can be read in any text editor or being converted to HTML or PDF using Sphinx_. An HTML version is online at https://pythonhosted.org/pyserial/

Examples

Examples and unit tests are in the directory examples_.

Installation

pip install pyserial should work for most users.

Detailed information can be found in documentation/pyserial.rst_.

The usual setup.py for Python_ libraries is used for the source distribution. Windows installers are also available (see download link above).

or

To install this package with conda run:

conda install -c conda-forge pyserial

conda builds are available for linux, mac and windows.

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