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Subject: Re: pyserial on freebsd 10.10 i386 [SOLVED]
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:55:01 +0100
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On 19/10/2014 16:06, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-10-18, Nagy L?szl? Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> wrote:
>
>> Strangely, pyserial will accept the number 0, but then it tries to open
>> a device that exists on Linux only...
>
> I'm sure Chris would be happy to accept a patch fixing that problem.
>

Sadly to some people a patch is a thing that mends your flat tyre or 
goes over your eye.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence