pySerial 2.6: specify end-of-line in readline()

Question

I am sending commands to Eddie using pySerial. I need to specify a carriage-return in my readline, but pySerial 2.6 got rid of it... Is there a workaround?

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Answer 1

from pyserial's documentation:

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Note:

The eol parameter for readline() is no longer supported when pySerial is run with newer Python versions (V2.6+) where the module io is available. EOL

To specify the EOL character for readline() or to use universal newline mode, it is advised to use io.TextIOWrapper:

import serial
import io
ser = serial.serial_for_url('loop://', timeout=1)
sio = io.TextIOWrapper(io.BufferedRWPair(ser, ser))

sio.write(unicode("hello\n"))
sio.flush() # it is buffering. required to get the data out *now*
hello = sio.readline()
print hello == unicode("hello\n")