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

According to the issue mentioned by Sebastian, This issue is resolved as of version 3.1 of Pyserial.

https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/issues/59

zsquareplusc commented on May 29

released 3.1 where an error setting control lines in open() is ignored (but not in later calls).

Update via pip, github or the download page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial

Answer 2

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.