[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm writing a driver in Python for an old fashioned piece of serial
> equipment. Currently I'm using the USPP serial module. From what I can
> see all the serial modules seem to set the timeout when you open a
> serial port. This is not what I want to do. I need to change
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I actually want to do is to respond immediately if the expected
> string comes in, but not raise a timeout unless it takes longer than
> the maximum time. So if the device I'm communicating with usually
> responds in a second, but _can_ take up to 20 seconds,
> you will probably have to make the port non blocking, and roll your own
> using different time.sleep(n) values between invocations to port.read(1) calls
What I actually want to do is to respond immediately if the expected
string comes in, but not raise a timeout unless it takes longer than
the m
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing a driver in Python for an old fashioned piece of serial
> equipment. Currently I'm using the USPP serial module. From what I can
> see all the serial modules seem to set the timeout when you open a
> serial port. This is not what I want to do. I need to ch
I'm writing a driver in Python for an old fashioned piece of serial
equipment. Currently I'm using the USPP serial module. From what I can
see all the serial modules seem to set the timeout when you open a
serial port. This is not what I want to do. I need to change the
timeout each time I do a "r
