Pyserial does not play well with virtual port

Question

Motivation

I want to start leraning how to use the python library Pyserial. It seems like a really nice library that works for a lot of people. I want t

Answer 1

To make this Q&A complete, this is a solution (as found in the link by Austin Philips):

#!/usr/bin/env python
import serial

ser = serial.Serial('/dev/pts/2', 9600, rtscts=True,dsrdtr=True)

See this PySerial Github issue for more explanation.