ArgumentError: Python argument types in DMFControlBoard.connect did not match C++ signature

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Set up

Dependency versions:

• pyserial==3.2.1

  1. Create instance of dmf_control_board_firmware.DMFControlBoard.

     import dmf_control_board_firmware as dmf
     b = dmf.DMFControlBoard()

  2. Try to connect:

     b.connect()

Expected behaviour

Successful connection to control board established with return code of 0.

Observed behaviour

The following exception occurs here:

ArgumentError: Python argument types in
    DMFControlBoard.connect(DMFControlBoard, unicode, int)
did not match C++ signature:
    connect(DMFControlBoard {lvalue}, char const*, unsigned int)

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Fixed by e6b14968b97cbfa0b9ce800320df2977f644849a.

As of pyserial==3.2.1, serial port names returned by serial.tools.list_ports.comports() are unicode strings instead of str strings. This caused an issue with the Boost Python binding for the C++ connect method.