- implementation for win uses ctypes now
- API docs: exceptions raised
- remove copy&paste text
diff --git a/documentation/pyserial.rst b/documentation/pyserial.rst
index c7c7b3d..c522ed2 100644
--- a/documentation/pyserial.rst
+++ b/documentation/pyserial.rst
@@ -37,9 +37,7 @@
RTS/CTS and/or Xon/Xoff.
* Working with or without receive timeout.
* File like API with "read" and "write" ("readline" etc. also supported).
-* The files in this package are 100% pure Python. They depend on non standard
- but common packages on Windows (pywin32) and Jython (JavaComm). POSIX (Linux,
- BSD) uses only modules from the standard Python distribution).
+* The files in this package are 100% pure Python.
* The port is set up for binary transmission. No NULL byte stripping, CR-LF
translation etc. (which are many times enabled for POSIX.) This makes this
module universally useful.
@@ -48,7 +46,7 @@
Requirements
============
* Python 2.2 or newer
-* pywin32 extensions on Windows
+* ctypes extensions on Windows (is in standard library since Python 2.5+)
* "Java Communications" (JavaComm) or compatible extension for Java/Jython
@@ -96,7 +94,6 @@
References
==========
* Python: http://www.python.org/
-* pywin32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ (previously known as win32all)
* Jython: http://www.jython.org/
* Java@IBM: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ (JavaComm links are
on the download page for the respective platform JDK)
@@ -111,4 +108,7 @@
compatible with Python 2.0 on Windows, Linux and several un*x like systems,
MacOSX and Jython.
+On windows they will depend on pywin32_ (previously known as win32all)
+
.. _`Download Page`: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46487
+.. _pywin32: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywin32