Re: [Flashforth-devel] ff-shell3.py question

[Mikael N. <mik...@fl...>]

So did you have to change some python statements to get it working on 
OSX ?

Something I could incorporate in the distribution ?

Mikael

On 2024-07-06 21:28, Mark Ennamorato wrote:

> found it..fixed it thanks.
> now..on to getting the tcl script to run...
> Mark
> 
> On Jul 6, 2024, at 9:10 AM, Mark Ennamorato <mar...@gm...> 
> wrote:
> 
> thanks Mikael,
> 
> well... so after putting some debug prints in the code i found out the 
> "No such file..." error message was due to the fact that its trying to 
> find this file that did not exist and had nothing to do with the usb 
> serial port !
> 
> histfn = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".ff.history")
> 
> so once i 'touched' ~/.ff.history  it ran until I hit this snag
> 
> local variable 'e' referenced before assignment
> 
> which... 'e' is used for the "try...except" 's  and not sure why python 
> is complaining about it since its always something like
> 
> except Exception as e:  kind of thing
> 
> weird
> 
> mark
> 
> On Jul 5, 2024, at 10:16 PM, Mikael Nordman 
> <mik...@fl...> wrote:
> 
> So I added the close() and open() to serial_open(config) and it works 
> just fine on linux, maybe then also on OSX.
> Like this:
> 
> try:
> config.ser = serial.Serial(config.port, config.rate, timeout=0.5, 
> writeTimeout=1.0, rtscts=config.hw, xonxoff=config.sw)
> config.ser.close()
> config.ser.open()
> 
> Does that help ?
> 
> Mikael
> 
> On 2024-07-06 02:50, Mark Ennamorato wrote:
> Hi sorry..somewhat frustrated at the moment im sure there is something 
> dumb i am doing / not doing but..
> I *cannot* get the ff-shell3.py shell working at all .. M1 Mac, python 
> 3.9.0
> USB serial on /dev/tty.usbmodem13201
> I changed tried running the ff-shell3.py with 'python3 ff-shell3.py 
> /dev/tty.usbmodem13201' and get the dreaded "No such file or directory: 
> /dev/tty.usbmodem13201'  even though I can connect to it with screen no 
> issues.
> So them I was looking at the code and see its got a serial port object 
> "class Config(object)" and it so i changed default serial port to 
> /dev/tty.usbmodem13201' in it but still same issue.
> hmm.... this should not be so difficult.
> so i played with some simple python code inside the repl. just using 
> see = serial.Serial(PORT, BAUD) using same port /dev/tty.usbmodem13201 
> and then ser.open() and I get "serial port is already open" .. so i do 
> ser.close() first them ser.open() and it works, it sees my serial port 
> just fine.
> so why isn't the ff-shell3.py seeing my serial port ??
> TIA
> Mark
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