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Re: PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3

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On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Travis McGee <nobody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I finally got it installed, but when I try to use a statement of the
> sort ser.write("string") I get an exception which seems to imply that the
> argument needs to be an integer, rather than a string.

Quoting the full exception would help!

My suspicion is that it works with byte strings, not Unicode strings.
So you could do:

ser.write(b"string")

or:

ser.write("string".encode())

to turn it into a stream of bytes (the latter uses UTF-8, the former
would use your source file encoding).

ChrisA

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PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3 Travis McGee <nobody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-01 01:39 -0500
  Re: PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3 Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-12-31 22:43 -0800
  Re: PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-01 17:48 +1100
  Re: PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-01 17:57 +1100
  Re: PySerial for Python 2 vs. Python 3 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-01 14:54 -0500

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