Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.025 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.00; 'broken': 0.04; '(python': 0.07; 'binary': 0.07; 'pypi': 0.07; 'executable': 0.09; 'idea?': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'volunteer': 0.12; '2.7': 0.14; 'programs.': 0.14; 'maintainer': 0.16; 'modem': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'all.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'seems': 0.21; 'machine': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'fine': 0.24; 'second': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; 'programming.': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'work.': 0.31; 'gives': 0.31; 'getting': 0.31; '3.x': 0.31; 'fixing': 0.31; 'libraries': 0.31; 'probably': 0.32; 'stuff': 0.32; 'quite': 0.32; '"the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; '2.6': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'project': 0.37; 'outstanding': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'supporting': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'users': 0.40; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'received:173': 0.61; 'real': 0.63; 'day.': 0.63; 'subject:The': 0.64; 'zip': 0.64; 'interest': 0.64; 'worth': 0.66; 'world': 0.66; 'physical': 0.72; 'serial': 0.72; 'life.': 0.83; '2.5.': 0.84; '2.7.': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'source?': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; 'homepage': 0.91; 'sensors': 0.91; 'pc.': 0.93; 'state.': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Jan Reedy Subject: Re: The state of pySerial Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:46:25 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1369863984 news.xs4all.nl 16006 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35581 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:46415 On 5/29/2013 3:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-05-29, Ma Xiaojun wrote: > >> pySerial is probably "the solution" for serial port programming. >> Physical serial port is dead on PC but USB-to-Serial give it a second >> life. Serial port stuff won't interest end users at all. But it is >> still used in the EE world and so on. Arduino uses it to upload >> programs. Sensors may use serial port to communicate with PC. GSM >> Modem also uses serial port to communicate with PC. >> >> Unforunately, pySerial project doesn't seem to have a good state. I >> find pySerial + Python 3.3 broken on my machine (Python 2.7 is OK) . >> There are unanswered outstanding bugs, PyPI page has 2.6 while SF >> homepage still gives 2.5. >> >> Any idea? > > Volunteer as a maintainer and start fixing bugs? It seems to be getting around 200 downloands a day. Quite worth someone supporting it. > I use pyserial regularly, and the current version works fine for me, > but I'm using Python 2.7. There are still too many libraries that > don't support 3.x for me to consider using 3.x for real work. The only download is a .exe. It it just the executable binary or is that a zip unpacker with source?