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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"macOS issue -- ImportError: No module named 'serial'","articleBody":"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)\r\n\r\n**pyserial**\r\n\r\nHere's what happens on a brand new python virtualenv:\r\n\r\n```shell\r\n(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ python\r\nPython 3.5.2 (default, Jul 28 2016, 21:28:00)\r\n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin\r\nType \"help\", \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information.\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import codebug_tether\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"\u003cstdin\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n  File \"/Users/mjl/lib/hax/lib/python3.5/site-packages/codebug_tether/__init__.py\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n    from codebug_tether.core import (CodeBug,\r\n  File \"/Users/mjl/lib/hax/lib/python3.5/site-packages/codebug_tether/core.py\", line 3, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n    import serial\r\nImportError: No module named 'serial'\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\nIf 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:\r\n\r\n```shell\r\npip install codebug_tether pyserial\r\n```\r\n\r\n*Then* it works.\r\n\r\nLet's try:\r\n\r\n```shell\r\n(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ pip install pyserial\r\nCollecting pyserial\r\n  Downloading pyserial-3.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (189kB)\r\n    100% |████████████████████████████████| 194kB 967kB/s\r\nInstalling collected packages: pyserial\r\nSuccessfully installed pyserial-3.2.1\r\n```\r\n\r\nNow import the module:\r\n\r\n```shell\r\n(hax) mjl@milo:codebug$ python\r\nPython 3.5.2 (default, Jul 28 2016, 21:28:00)\r\n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin\r\nType \"help\", \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for more information.\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import codebug_tether\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\r\n```\r\n\r\nHappy Hacking!","author":{"url":"https://github.com/sinewalker","@type":"Person","name":"sinewalker"},"datePublished":"2016-11-04T21:11:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/20/codebug_tether/issues/20"}