what is the name of a virtual serial port?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:46 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: 
> I want to open a USB virtual serial port from python.
> How do I figure out the name to pass to serial.Serial(...)?
> >From poking around in /sys/bus/usb/devices/ ,
> the bus and dev numbers are 4 and 2.
> I recognize product.
> There is lots of stuff under
> /sys.bus/usb/drivers/cdc_acm/4-2:1.0/tty/ttyACM0 ,
> but I don't know what to do with it?
> 
> With Windows, I had to read the registry, but at least I could come up
> with a short list of serial ports that included the virtual serial port.
> I hope I don't *have* to use Windows.
> 
How about lspci or lshw 
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> Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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