Re: [Tutor] Fw: Installing Pyserial for Python27 on Win 7

2010-11-22 Thread John Smith
/2010 6:18 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 11/22/2010 3:05 PM John Smith said... Hi, Emile - Install from sources? What is that? see http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html#installation the From Source section. I'm not sure what else may be required but it should help get you started

Re: [Tutor] Fw: Installing Pyserial for Python27 on Win 7

2010-11-24 Thread John Smith
Hi, Walter - Thanks to you, pyserial is installed and imports into Python. Not having double backslashes was the latest problem that you got me through. I am grateful for the support and education you have given me. Cheers, John ___ Tutor maillist

[Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-28 Thread John Smith
Can anybody tell me why the handle below is invalid? I'm running Win7. TIA, John Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. import serial ser = serial.Serial('com1', timeout = 5) x =

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-29 Thread John Smith
On 11/28/2010 8:06 PM, Walter Prins wrote: John, (snip stuff) Ugh, you're probably not going to like this. I've done some googling and it appears this may be a 64-bit issue with the ctypes module... apparently 64-bit ctypes can only import 64-bit libraries. See here: http://ur.ly/vSMQ Then

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-29 Thread John Smith
On 11/29/2010 4:20 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 11/29/2010 1:44 PM John Smith said... But, when I tried it in Python, I got the same as before: import serial ser = serial.Serial(0, timeout = 1) out of curiosity, if you change the timeout above to 5 ser Serialid=0x225c240, open

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-29 Thread John Smith
On 11/29/2010 5:56 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: (snip) Hmmm... any chance you don't have administrative rights on the account performing this? I never got to Win7 (having stopped at XP) but I know it's got a reputation for excessive permission asking. You're right about that. It's like Win7

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-29 Thread John Smith
On 11/29/2010 9:41 PM, Rance Hall wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM, John Smithjocj...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/29/2010 5:56 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: (snip) Hmmm... any chance you don't have administrative rights on the account performing this? I never got to Win7 (having stopped

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-30 Thread John Smith
On 11/30/2010 10:37 AM, Walter Prins wrote: Hello John (snip) In any case, to fix it let's delete all instances of pySerial and then install it again, as follows: 1.) Open up your Python site-packages folder in Windows Explorer, e.g. open up: E:\Python27\lib\site-packages 2.) Delete any

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-30 Thread John Smith
On 11/30/2010 6:23 PM, Walter Prins wrote: Hello John, (snip) Apparently so. Well, win32file is part of the PyWin32 package, which are a set of modules that wrap many Windows API's. I'm not sure why it was't/isn't required for PySerial 2.5 or whether as you say perhaps this module is

Re: [Tutor] Pyserial and invalid handle

2010-11-30 Thread John Smith
On 11/30/2010 7:27 PM, Adam Bark wrote: On 01/12/10 01:00, John Smith wrote: Hi, Walter - I got pywin32-214.win32-py2.7.exe because I have the Intel i7 (I'm guessing that the AMD versions are for the AMD processor). However, all of the exe offerings have the same Python not found in registry