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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e793ca --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +================================= + pySerial |build-status| |docs| +================================= + +Overview +======== +This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends +for Python_ running on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant +system) and IronPython. The module named "serial" automatically selects the +appropriate backend. + +- Project Homepage: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial +- Download Page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial + +BSD license, (C) 2001-2020 Chris Liechti <cliechti@gmx.net> + + +Documentation +============= +For API documentation, usage and examples see files in the "documentation" +directory. The ".rst" files can be read in any text editor or being converted to +HTML or PDF using Sphinx_. An HTML version is online at +https://pythonhosted.org/pyserial/ + +Examples +======== +Examples and unit tests are in the directory examples_. + + +Installation +============ +``pip install pyserial`` should work for most users. + +Detailed information can be found in `documentation/pyserial.rst`_. + +The usual setup.py for Python_ libraries is used for the source distribution. +Windows installers are also available (see download link above). + +or + +To install this package with conda run: + +``conda install -c conda-forge pyserial`` + +conda builds are available for linux, mac and windows. + +.. _`documentation/pyserial.rst`: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/documentation/pyserial.rst#installation +.. _examples: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/examples +.. _Python: http://python.org/ +.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx-doc.org/ +.. |build-status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/pyserial/pyserial.svg?branch=master + :target: https://travis-ci.org/pyserial/pyserial + :alt: Build status +.. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/pyserial/badge/?version=latest + :target: http://pyserial.readthedocs.io/ + :alt: Documentation |