error when trying to run example

[sbluatx]

import serial
from pexpect_serial import SerialSpawn
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\python36\lib\site-packages\pexpect_serial_init_.py", line 1, in
from .serial_spawn import SerialSpawn
File "C:\python36\lib\site-packages\pexpect_serial\serial_spawn.py", line 24, in
from pexpect import spawn
ImportError: cannot import name 'spawn'

[sbluatx]

seems like from https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html#windows pexpect.spawn is not available on windows

pexpect.version
'4.8.0'

[david-drinn]

For my use case, I was using pexpect-serial on Windows for years. I'm not sure what changed in pexpect that removed that support. I'm guessing someone realized a technicality that is important for some use cases but not others, and removed support.

Looking to see which version of pexpect was used before where this worked.

EDIT: My guess that pexpect broke this was wrong. See below.

[david-drinn]

pip install --force-reinstall -v "pexpect_serial==0.0.4" resolved this issue for me. That is, use version 0.0.4 of pexpect_serial, not 0.1.0.

[david-drinn]

4488ae4 appears to be the culprit commit that broke this in pexpect_serial.

[dancollins]

Running pip install pexpect-serial==0.0.4 on windows fixed it for me, too. Running Windows 11, miniconda and Python 3.11.