Hey all, I am back again with the serial port stuff, i have verified that all the baud rate and settings are ok, had my unit talk directly to a serial port reader and it is looking good, however, i still am not seeming to be able to read this.
I had a question that might make me a clue. if i do this: j = ser.read(23) f = open('filename', 'wb') f.write(j) when i do file from the cli in linux, the file says to contain data. however if i do this: i = 1 msg_list = [] while i < 23: msg_list.append(ser.read(1)) items = ''.join(msg_list) f=open('filename', 'wb') f.write(items) f.close() i get that the file is a binary file. i didn't think there would be a difference. anyway, thanks sk _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor