PYserial basics?

[bako]

I figured it out. Apparently I had another PIP package called "serial" installed which totally doesn't do what I want. Anybody know how to handle with conflicts like that?

Name: pyserial
Version: 3.4
Summary: Python Serial Port Extension
Home-page: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial
Author: Chris Liechti
Author-email: [email protected]
License: BSD
Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires:

Name: serial
Version: 0.0.97
Summary: A framework for serializing/deserializing JSON/YAML/XML into python class instances and vice versa
Home-page: https://bitbucket.com/davebelais/serial.git
Author: David Belais
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires: future, iso8601, pyyaml