read from serial port

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I executed this commange from the pySerial folder: sage -python setup.py install

now in a sage notebook, my commands "import serial" "import pySerial" "import pyserial-2.5, etc all give errors.

It would be helpful if you post the actual code that produces the error and the error itself.

>import pyserial No module named serial

import pyserial-2.5 SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Look at the example from the pySerial documentation: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/shortintro.html The correct module to import is "serial", not "pyserial" or "pyserial-2.5".

That as well gives me the error "ImportError: No module named serial"

I just downloaded pyserial-2.5, used `sage -python setup.py install`, then ran sage at the terminal and did `import serial`. I get no errors. Here is the log: https://gist.github.com/1119201

@benjaminfjones: I seem to be able to have it work in the sage command line, but still get errors in the sage notebook. Any idea why this might be? Thanks for your help!

Are you using the same Sage installation for the command line and the notebook? If you run the command line Sage where `import serial` works, and then do `notebook()`, does import serial work in the notebook that loads?

I run from the sage command line 'import serial' and it works, then from the same command line I run notebook() and 'import serial' returns the error 'No module named serial'.