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

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

2010-11-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 11/23/2010 5:57 AM Walter Prins said... On 23 November 2010 03:02, John Smith wrote: I like Python itself. Very powerful. But I guess I'll look for some other language which provides the features I need without the hassle. Thanks again for your help. In any case for the record, Python sou

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

2010-11-23 Thread Walter Prins
On 23 November 2010 03:02, John Smith wrote: > I _assume_ the source is the one that is a tar.gz thingy. Since Windows > will not handle the unpacking of that, I have to install a > decompressor/unpacker to do it. Then I can finally get around to installing > the serial package. Maybe. Unless I r

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

2010-11-22 Thread John Smith
So, let's see Serial communications does not come with Python so a separate package has to be installed. Okay, but the pyserial Windows installer will not work in Windows 7 and will not be fixed. So, a source install is required. I _assume_ the source is the one that is a tar.gz thingy. S

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

2010-11-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
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. Emile I searched for that phrase bu

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

2010-11-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2921957&group_id=46487&atid=446302 where it's explained that this bug won't get fixed, but that you can install from sources. Emile On 11/22/2010 1:08 PM ALAN GAULD said... Forwarding to the list Please send list mail to tutor@pyt

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

2010-11-22 Thread ALAN GAULD
Forwarding to the list Please send list mail to tutor@python.org not tutor-owner... - Forwarded Message > From: John Smith > To: tutor-ow...@python.org > Sent: Monday, 22 November, 2010 19:29:37 > Subject: Installing Pyserial for Python27 on Win 7 > > My OS is Win 7. I have the 64-bit