pyserial: No module named tools

Use pip to install pyserial. First install pip:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

After that install pyserial:

sudo pip install pyserial

python python-2.7 serial-port pyserial

I got here because I had the same problem.The strange thing was that

import serial

worked, but

from serial.tools import list_ports

didn't.

Turns out stupid me named the script "serial.py". After renaming it everything worked.

python python-2.7 serial-port pyserial

You have to uninstall serial and pyserial then reinstall pyserial:

pip uninstall serialpip uninstall pyserialpip install pyserial

Because the both libs contain a file named serial.py, you get a name conflict.

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