macOS issue -- ImportError: No module named 'serial'

[sinewalker]

The install instructions which are in readthedocs (and also on CodeBug's Activities) are missing a crucial library that doesn't come installed in vanilla python (at least not on the Mac)

pyserial

Here's what happens on a brand new python virtualenv:

(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jul 28 2016, 21:28:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import codebug_tether
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/mjl/lib/hax/lib/python3.5/site-packages/codebug_tether/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from codebug_tether.core import (CodeBug,
  File "/Users/mjl/lib/hax/lib/python3.5/site-packages/codebug_tether/core.py", line 3, in <module>
    import serial
ImportError: No module named 'serial'
>>>

If the instructions are updated to add pyserial as well as codebug_tether (or set it as a dependency for the package) then it will solve for other kids playing along:

pip install codebug_tether pyserial

Then it works.

Let's try:

(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ pip install pyserial
Collecting pyserial
  Downloading pyserial-3.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (189kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 194kB 967kB/s
Installing collected packages: pyserial
Successfully installed pyserial-3.2.1

Now import the module:

(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jul 28 2016, 21:28:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import codebug_tether
>>>

Happy Hacking!