ImportError: no module named serial

[Dimitrios Symeonidis]

python-serial is installed under /usr/share/pyshared, which is not in python(2.7)'s search path. Thus it can't be imported.

The following works around the problem:
import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/share/pyshared')

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: python-serial 2.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 9 14:38:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_IE.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pyserial

[Andreas Bulling (spam-hierher)]

confirmed, both the bug and the workaround, same DistroRelease and architecture

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Confirmed, I've linked a branch that fixes the issue by not cleaning up the /usr/lib/* in python-serial.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pyserial - 2.5-1ubuntu1

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pyserial (2.5-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules
    - don't delete contents of /usr/lib/* for python-serial (LP: #715766)
 -- Andreas Moog <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:18:02 +0100

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

As this has already been released in Ubuntu, I'm unsubscribing from Ubuntu sponsors.

Thanks.