On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:52:33 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2006-12-03, Si Ballenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In my dealing with serial gizmos I have to put a delay between >> the request sent to the gizmo and the reading of the serial input >> buffer for returned data. Serial ports and gizmos need some time >> to do their thing. > >I doubt that's the issue. He's reading with a 1-second timeout >value. I would think a time delay would be needed between the below two lines in the code if he expects to get a useable data string back from the gizmo for the command sent to it. ser.write("TC 016 240 100 240 016 240\r\n") reading = ser.read(40) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list