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Iwan Tantoso
Iwan Tantoso

Reputation: 63

pySerial 2.7, 'SyntaxError: invalid syntax' : Import serial error in Python 3.5 (using Mac OSX 10.10 - Yosemite)

I have been trying to find a solution through the web, but none of the solutions I saw solved my problem. It will be very grateful for anyone that can solved my problem.

I have install the pySerial-2.7 module into the python using the tutorial below: http://www.instructables.com/id/Interface-Python-and-Arduino-with-pySerial/

Everything went smoothly when I used Python 2.7 as I uninstall it and migrate to python 3.5

As I type this code:

import serial

It shown me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<_pyshell#0>", line 1, in <_module> import serial File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/serial/init.py", line 21, in <_module>

from serial.serialposix import * File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 58

except IOError, e: ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The python 3.5 cannot import serial which i do not know how to solve. Any help for this error will be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1638

Answers (1)

Iwan Tantoso
Iwan Tantoso

Reputation: 63

Try reinstall the pyserial using the Terminal in your MAC from extracting the tar file and running the installer again:

tar xfvz pyserial-2.7.tar.gz

cd pyserial-2.7

sudo python setup.py install

If everything going smoothly. Then I tried to install for Python 3:

sudo python3 setup.py install

A bit of searching revealed a bug ticket describing exactly this issue.

The solution is simple:

sudo rm -Rf build

sudo python3 setup.py install

When the next version of pyserial is released, this problem will be resolved. :-)

Upvotes: 1

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