On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ronn Ross <ronn.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using pySerial to connect to a serial port (rs232) on a windows xp > machine. I'm using python interactive interpretor to interact with the > device. I type the following: > import serial > ser = serial.Serial(2) > ser.write("command") > > But this does nothing to the control. I have been able to connect via puTTY > to verify that the command and the device are working. Next I tried to open > the port before > writing. It looks like this: > import serial > ser = serial.Serial(2) > ser.open() > > It returns that an error. It states that I do not have permissions? I don't > know how to resolve either issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried setting the baud rate? (the `baudrate` param to Serial's constructor) Why are you using port #2 and not #0? Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list