1#!/usr/bin/env python 2 3# portable serial port access with python 4 5# This is a module that gathers a list of serial ports on POSIXy systems. 6# For some specific implementations, see also list_ports_linux, list_ports_osx 7# 8# this is a wrapper module for different platform implementations of the 9# port enumeration feature 10# 11# (C) 2011-2013 Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net> 12# this is distributed under a free software license, see license.txt 13 14"""\ 15The ``comports`` function is expected to return an iterable that yields tuples 16of 3 strings: port name, human readable description and a hardware ID. 17 18As currently no method is known to get the second two strings easily, they are 19currently just identical to the port name. 20""" 21 22import glob 23import sys 24import os 25 26# try to detect the OS so that a device can be selected... 27plat = sys.platform.lower() 28 29if plat[:5] == 'linux': # Linux (confirmed) 30 from serial.tools.list_ports_linux import comports 31 32elif plat == 'cygwin': # cygwin/win32 33 def comports(): 34 devices = glob.glob('/dev/com*') 35 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 36 37elif plat[:7] == 'openbsd': # OpenBSD 38 def comports(): 39 devices = glob.glob('/dev/cua*') 40 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 41 42elif plat[:3] == 'bsd' or \ 43 plat[:7] == 'freebsd': 44 45 def comports(): 46 devices = glob.glob('/dev/cuad*') 47 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 48 49elif plat[:6] == 'darwin': # OS X (confirmed) 50 from serial.tools.list_ports_osx import comports 51 52elif plat[:6] == 'netbsd': # NetBSD 53 def comports(): 54 """scan for available ports. return a list of device names.""" 55 devices = glob.glob('/dev/dty*') 56 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 57 58elif plat[:4] == 'irix': # IRIX 59 def comports(): 60 """scan for available ports. return a list of device names.""" 61 devices = glob.glob('/dev/ttyf*') 62 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 63 64elif plat[:2] == 'hp': # HP-UX (not tested) 65 def comports(): 66 """scan for available ports. return a list of device names.""" 67 devices = glob.glob('/dev/tty*p0') 68 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 69 70elif plat[:5] == 'sunos': # Solaris/SunOS 71 def comports(): 72 """scan for available ports. return a list of device names.""" 73 devices = glob.glob('/dev/tty*c') 74 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 75 76elif plat[:3] == 'aix': # AIX 77 def comports(): 78 """scan for available ports. return a list of device names.""" 79 devices = glob.glob('/dev/tty*') 80 return [(d, d, d) for d in devices] 81 82else: 83 # platform detection has failed... 84 sys.stderr.write("""\ 85don't know how to enumerate ttys on this system. 86! I you know how the serial ports are named send this information to 87! the author of this module: 88 89sys.platform = %r 90os.name = %r 91pySerial version = %s 92 93also add the naming scheme of the serial ports and with a bit luck you can get 94this module running... 95""" % (sys.platform, os.name, serial.VERSION)) 96 raise ImportError("Sorry: no implementation for your platform ('%s') available" % (os.name,)) 97 98# test 99if __name__ == '__main__': 100 for port, desc, hwid in sorted(comports()): 101 print "%s: %s [%s]" % (port, desc, hwid) 102