Can’t upgrade pyserial in latest raspbian distribution?

This is just for your information if you are a Raspberry Pi user and playing with Python code from my blog. If you are trying to use the latest distro of raspbian with pyserial for some serial port project, you may have come across this issue that regardless how you upgrade pyserial using pip3, your python3 will always call up the old pyserial 2.6 that came with the distribution. I am a bit disappointed that the foundation has included such an old version of pyserial, couldn’t they just try a pyserial 3.0 instead? My solution was to remove the python3-serial module using apt-get and then install pyserial 3.3 using pip3.

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sudo apt-get remove python3-serial
sudo pip3 install pyserial
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Hope this helps.