On Apr 2, 8:53 pm, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:01:02 -0700 (PDT) > > > > gert <gert.cuyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > from subprocess import * > > > check_call(['mode', 'COM1:9600,N,8,1,P'],shell=True) > > while True: > > with open('com1', 'r') as f: > > for line in f: > > print('line') > > > This works very well except for one thing. After a reboot I have to > > launch 1 time any windows serial exe application no mater with one, > > that just opens an closes the com port, before i can launch this > > script. The script keeps on working even after closing and reopening > > it, until i reboot the pc. Then again I have to launch one time a > > serial.exe and close it again. The exe does not run anything in the > > background it just does something in windows python does not do when > > it reads from the com port after a fresh reboot. > > > And i really appreciate it if somebody knew what it was. > > I don't know why you're getting this behaviour, but have you tried using > a python library for accessing the serial port? > Seehttp://pyserial.wiki.sourceforge.net/pySerial. >
I am sorry but I don't think pyserial will work on python3.x and I also like to know whats going on before I consider it. Maybe its a bug in open() on windows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list