"Lone Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get data through my serial port from a CMUcam. > This gizmo tracks a color and returns a packet of data. The > packet has nine data points (well, really eight since the first > point is just a packet header) separated by spaces as follows: M > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
8<---------------------------- Try splitting the stuff on the "M" first to separate the records, then get rid of the newlines, carriage return, linefeed, whatever, and then use the split on whitespace... - HTH - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list