Pyserial Error

[entropicII]

I'm using python to try and talk to my Arduino with pyserial. The code should wait for an input from COM5, (the arduino), and then sends a 1 and waits for the response.

import serial

connected = False

ser = serial.serial("COM5", 9600)

while not connected:
    serin = ser.read()
    connected = True

ser.write("1")

while ser.read() == '1':
    ser.read()

ser.close()

All I get if this error message.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Patrick\Documents\Python\serial.py", line 2, in <module>
    import serial
  File "C:\Users\Patrick\Documents\Python\serial.py", line 10, in <module>
    ser = serial.serial("COM5", 9600)
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

[sneekula]

Python is case sensitive, so try:

ser = serial.Serial("COM5", 9600)

[entropicII]

'module' object has no attribute 'Serial'

This happens if you try that.

[woooee]

PySerial finds the port by he offset so the first port would be offset 0, since it is at the beginning. Port #5 would offset the first 4 ports from the beginning so would be

ser = serial.Serial(4, 9600)

Take a look at the intro docs Click Here
and try python -m serial.tools.list_ports

I would also suggest that you sleep for one or two tenths of a second in the while loop so you don't a lot of computer resources unnecessarily.

[sneekula]

Strange, pyserial has a class Serial()
Did you accidentally save your code file as serial.py?

[vegaseat]

The Python interpreter searches for module "serial" first in the working directory, then in its builtin modules in directory Lib, then in its packages.

When it finds a file serial.py in the working directory it will import your code file instead of the module. So please do not name any of your code files the same as a module file you want to import.

Just one of the nasty surprises Python has waiting for you!

[entropicII]

Thanks, that was the problem I named my file serial. But now that it works I'm being told that:

'int' object is not iterable

What is the cause of this?

[entropicII]

I should say the this relates to line 11. Which created an error that said it must be an integer so I changed it to:

ser.write(1)

Without the quotation marks.

[woooee]

Add

if ser.isOpen():    
    print "open"
    ## read and write code goes here
else:
    print "closed"

to first make sure the port is open.

Are you using Python3 and trying to write bytes instead of strings? Try

output = "1"
print type(output)
ser.write(output)

Also, this

while not connected:
    serin = ser.read()
    connected = True

only happens once so it is the same as just

serin = ser.read()