I have never had to deal wtih python for windows. You may want to ask the python guys themselves, or the pyserial guys. If you have access to irc you can talk to them and they answer very quickly. Sorry I can't help you more there. BR, Jason
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 06:06 -0700, frankz wrote: > Paraneeth > How does pyserial work for you? can you provide details? which > platform? > > I tested on linux machine and confirmed pyserial works. Just curious > how can it be done on windows. > > thanks, > > On May 6, 8:56 am, frankz <[email protected]> wrote: > > How can i fix this? for wintypes, i put the ctypes folder under site- > > packages, it doesn't make any change. Same thing after I put wintypes > > directly under site-packages. I also restart the web2py. > > Is there any generic way to import packages? like pyserial, it has a > > package name - pyserial-2.5-rc2, should i copy the whole folder to > > site-packages and then add path to pyserial2.5-rc2? > > > > thanks, > > > > On May 5, 11:20 pm, Jason Brower <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds like something called wintypes is missing. See if you can install > > > that. > > > Jason > > > > > ----- Original message ----- > > > > hi all, > > > > I want to import pyserial package. however, got an import error. I > > > > tried a really simple module and it imports just fine. I am not sure > > > > which problem is it. > > > > > > thanks for help! > > > > > > Controller > > > > ======= > > > > > > def start(): > > > > import sys > > > > path = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\frank.zhu\\My Documents\ > > > > \Downloads\\web2py\\site-packages\\" > > > > if path not in sys.path: > > > > sys.path.append(path) > > > > # kick off the serial driver > > > > import serial > > > > # update bus state in the database > > > > return dict(session.bus) > > > > > > Error > > > > ==== > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in restricted > > > > File "C:/Documents and Settings/frank.zhu/My Documents/Downloads/ > > > > web2py/applications/dms/controllers/default.py", line 82, in <module> > > > > File "gluon/globals.py", line 96, in <lambda> > > > > File "C:/Documents and Settings/frank.zhu/My Documents/Downloads/ > > > > web2py/applications/dms/controllers/default.py", line 30, in start > > > > File "C:\Documents and Settings\frank.zhu\My Documents\Downloads > > > > \web2py\site-packages\pyserial-2.5-rc2\serial\__init__.py", line 19, > > > > in <module> > > > > File "C:\Documents and Settings\frank.zhu\My Documents\Downloads > > > > \web2py\site-packages\pyserial-2.5-rc2\serial\serialwin32.py", line > > > > 12, in <module> > > > > File "C:\Documents and Settings\frank.zhu\My Documents\Downloads > > > > \web2py\site-packages\pyserial-2.5-rc2\serial\win32.py", line 2, in > > > > <module> > > > > ImportError: No module named wintypes
