spintronic <sidorenko.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have a trouble with understanding the following. I have a very short > script (shown below) which works fine if I "run" step by step (or line > by line) in Python shell (type the first line/command -> press Enter, > etc.). I can get all numbers (actually, there are no numbers but a > long string, but this is not a problem) I need from a device: > > '0.3345098119,0.01069121274,0.02111624694,0.03833379529,0.02462816409,0.0774275008,0.06554297421,0.07366750919,0.08122602002,0.004018369318,0.03508462415,0.04829900696,0.06383554085, > ...' > > However, when I start very the same list of commands as a script, it > gives me the following, which is certainly wrong: > > [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,...] > > Any ideas? Why there is a difference when I run the script or do it > command by command? > > =========================== > from visa import * > > mw = instrument("GPIB0::20::INSTR", timeout = None) > > mw.write("*RST") > mw.write("CALC1:DATA? FDATA") > > a=mw.read() > > print a > =========================== > (That is really all!) > > > PS In this case I use Python Enthought for Windows, but I am not an > expert in Windows (I work usually in Linux but now I need to run this > data acquisition under Windows). > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Shot in the dark: could it be that you have to add delays to give the instrument time to adjust? When you do it from the python shell, line by line, there is a long delay between one line and the next. Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list