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| Overview |
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| 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. |
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| - Project Homepage: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial |
| - Download Page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial |
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| BSD license, (C) 2001-2017 Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net> |
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| Documentation |
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| 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/ |
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| Examples |
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| Examples and unit tests are in the directory examples_. |
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| Installation |
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| ``pip install pyserial`` should work for most users. |
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| Detailed information can be found in `documentation/pyserial.rst`_. |
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| The usual setup.py for Python_ libraries is used for the source distribution. |
| Windows installers are also available (see download link above). |
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| or |
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| To install this package with conda run: |
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| ``conda install -c conda-forge pyserial`` |
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| conda builds are available for linux, mac and windows. |
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| .. _`documentation/pyserial.rst`: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/documentation/pyserial.rst#installation |
| .. _examples: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/examples |
| .. _Python: http://python.org/ |
| .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx-doc.org/ |
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