Diez wrote: > Apart from that the approach you use is wasting resources - if you are > concerned about that (or better style...) use e.g. twisted with the > serial and parallel support and its so-called select reactor. The idea > behind that concept is that the OS is responsible for scannig IO-Ports. > It notifies an application about newly arrived data by the system > function select - which means that your program sits and waits not > cosuming any resources until actual data arrives. See the module select > for an overview, and google for "python twisted serial".
Thanks for the help, the code you previously posted worked, but I can see it could get very messy if the number of ports increased... I'm going to look at twisted python. Thanks again for the pointers, much appreciated. Regards William MacLeod -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
