Arduino Communication Classes

"""
These class is used to communicate with an Arduino.
It requires the pySerial library.
"""

import time, serial

class init(object):

    #open port

    def create (self, port, channel):

        arduino = serial.Serial(port, channel)
        check = self.check(arduino)
        return arduino, check

    #checks whether it worked or not

    def check (self, arduino):

        print(arduino.isOpen())
        return arduino.isOpen()

    #closes the port

    def close (self, arduino):

        check = self.check(arduino)

        if check == True:
            arduino.close()

        self.check(arduino)

class read_write(object):

    #readline

    def readAline(self, arduino):

        text = arduino.readline()
        print(text)
        return text

    #readline without /r/n, and b at the beginning

    def readASline(self, arduino):

        text = self.readAline(arduino)
        text = text.decode('ascii')
        text = text.replace("\n", "")
        text = text.replace("\r", "")
        print(text)
        return text

    #write

    def write(self, arduino, text):

        arduino.write(text)

    #write with non-byte format string

    def writeASCII(self, arduino, text):

        text = text.encode()
        self.write(arduino, text)