CentOS - Nov 2017 - how to install pyserial on centos 6?

I tried
yum import pyserial
yum provides '*serial*'
gave me
distribution-gpg-keys-copr-1.15-1.el6.noarch : GPG keys for Copr projects
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/copr/copr-ifas-pyserial.gpg



python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch : %{sum}
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyo
Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyc
Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.py

yum install python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch
"worked", but didn't help:
[hennebry at localhost ~]$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 15:13:37)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
"license" for more information.
>>> import pyserial
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pyserial
>>> import serial
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named serial
>>>
What happened?
How do I get pyerial?

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On 2017-11-06, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
wrote:
>
> python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch : %{sum}
> Repo        : epel
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyo
> Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyc
> Filename    : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.py
Based on the Python IVI readme
(http://alexforencich.com/wiki/en/python-ivi/readme),
it looks like this library is able to use the actual PySerial library
but doesn't provide it.  You may need to install that using pip if it's
not available in EPEL.  The ivi RPM may not provide pyserial because it's
not a required library.

You may also just want to search EPEL for serial.py, which is the
ultimate name of the PySerial library on disk.

--keith

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