Hello, I am having some trouble with a serial stream on a project I am
working on. I have an external board that is attached to a set of
sensors. The board polls the sensors, filters them, formats the
values, and sends the formatted values over a serial bus. The serial
stream comes out like $A1234$$B-10$$C987$,  where "$A.*$" is a sensor
value, "$B.*$" is a sensor value, "$C.*$" is a sensor value, ect...

When one sensor is running my python script grabs the data just fine,
removes the formatting, and throws it into a text control box. However
when 3 or more sensors are running, I get output like the following:

Sensor 1: 373
Sensor 2: 112$$M-160$G373
Sensor 3: 763$$A892$

I am fairly certain this means that my code is running too slow to
catch all the '$' markers. Below is the snippet of code I believe is
the cause of this problem...

def OnSerialRead(self, event):
        text = event.data
        self.sensorabuffer = self.sensorabuffer + text
        self.sensorbbuffer = self.sensorbbuffer + text
        self.sensorcbuffer = self.sensorcbuffer + text

        if sensoraenable:
                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorabuffer )
                        if sensorresult:
                                s = sensorresult.group(0)
                                s = s[2:-1]
                                if self.sensor_enable_chkbox.GetValue():
                                        self.SensorAValue = s
                                self.sensorabuffer = ''

        if sensorbenable:
                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorbenable)
                        if sensorresult:
                                s = sensorresult.group(0)
                                s = s[2:-1]
                                if self.sensor_enable_chkbox.GetValue():
                                        self.SensorBValue = s
                                self.sensorbenable= ''

        if sensorcenable:
                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorcenable)
                        if sensorresult:
                                s = sensorresult.group(0)
                                s = s[2:-1]
                                if self.sensor_enable_chkbox.GetValue():
                                        self.SensorCValue = s
                                self.sensorcenable= ''

        self.DisplaySensorReadings()

I think that regex is too slow for this operation, but I'm uncertain
of another method in python that could be faster. A little help would
be appreciated.
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