# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
pyvisa.resources.serial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
High level wrapper for Serial resources.
This file is part of PyVISA.
:copyright: 2014 by PyVISA Authors, see AUTHORS for more details.
:license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
from __future__ import division, unicode_literals, print_function, absolute_import
from .. import constants
from .messagebased import MessageBasedResource
@MessageBasedResource.register(constants.InterfaceType.asrl, 'INSTR')
[docs]class SerialInstrument(MessageBasedResource):
"""Communicates with devices of type ASRL<board>[::INSTR]
Do not instantiate directly, use :meth:`pyvisa.highlevel.ResourceManager.open_resource`.
"""
[docs] def flush(self, mask):
"""Manually clears the specified buffers and cause the buffer data
to be written to the device.
:param mask: Specifies the action to be taken with flushing the buffer.
(Constants.READ*, .WRITE*, .IO*)
"""
self.visalib.flush(mask)