I've already mailed the author, waiting for reply. For Windows people, downloading a exe get you pySerial 2.5, which list_ports and miniterm feature seems not included. To use 2.6, download the tar.gz and use standard "setup.py install" to install it (assume you have .py associated) . There is no C compiling involved in the installation process.
For whether Python 3.3 is supported or not. I observed something like: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5715275/ . miniterm works for Python 3.3 at this time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list