Access USB serial ports using Python and pyserial
How do I access the USB port using pyserial? I have seen an example with: import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0') I used to access the serial port from MATLAB on Windows and using the appropriate syntax, /dev/ttyUSB0 would be replaced by COM1 or any other COM port. I'm on a Mac and I tried using the serial port scanners on the pyserial documentation to no avail. I think I should write it like this: import serial name = ? # Names of serial ports on Mac OS X ser = serial.Serial(name) How do I find out what name should be on a Mac? EDIT: In response to an answer below, I'd like to find