How to install pySerial on Windows XP

Question

How can I install pySerial on an XP machine that works with the XP compatable version of Python3?

PS. This is my first stackoverflow post. :)

Answer 1

To get PySerial on Windows XP:

1.) The latest versions of pySerial will not work on XP. You need to download pySerial 3.0.1 or older. I downloaded the exe.

2.) This exe is not a usual install file. If you try to double click it you will get the Windows error: "pySerial3.0.1.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

To install this exe you need to have python installed and then, using command prompt, navigate to the directory that has the pySerial3.0.1.exe in it and run: easy_install pySerial3.0.1.exe

That should install pySerial on your XP machine. This works with the XP compatible version of Python3, (which is 3.4,9)

Answer 2

Pyserial 3.0.1 is the last version that is supported on Windows XP

If you have pip, just use:

pip install pyserial==3.0.1

Incidentally the last XP compatible Python 3 is 3.4 (at post time, 3.4.9) can be found here

To my knowledge, Python 2.7 still remains XP compatible (at post time, 2.7.15) can be found here