PROS 3 Installation: module ‘serial’ has no attribute ‘Serial’

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#1

Hello there,

I’m trying to install Pros for V5 on a linux machine

I’m following the instructions according to this page
https://pros.cs.purdue.edu/v5/getting-started/linux.html

To install the CLI, I used

python3.6 -m pip install --user https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros-cli/releases/download/3.1.4/pros_cli_v5-3.1.4-py3-none-any.whl

But I get the error message

AttributeError: module ‘serial’ has no attribute ‘Serial’

What have I done wrong?

#2

Looks like for some reason the pyserial module wasn’t installed correctly?

Try

python3.6 -m pip install pyserial

And see if that fixes it

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#3

after a lot of digging I found that the problem was I had another python module called “serial” that seemed to interfere pyserial

after uninstalling it via pip everything started to work fine

thank you though!

#4

Ah yeah that would do it.

Might be worth adding a note to the instructions about that- I seem to recall that happening to myself at some point a while ago

(Edit: that was mostly a note-to-self, but if someone wants to open a PR for that I won’t say no :slight_smile:)