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import serial #Serial takes these two parameters: serial device and baudrate ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600)

Initialize serial device import serial #Serial takes two parameters: serial device and baudrate ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600) to read single byte from serial device data = ser.read() to read given number of bytes from the serial device data = ser.read(size=5) to read one li...

To get a list of available serial ports use python -m serial.tools.list_ports at a command prompt or from serial.tools import list_ports list_ports.comports() # Outputs list of available serial ports from the Python shell.