On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:11:23 GMT, Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:24:48 -0800, engsol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Has anyone done a script that will rspond to the serial com port(s) > >receive buffer interrupt, as opposed to polling and timeouts? > >Win2000 is the main interest right now. > > Have you looked into letting the OS do it? I.e., reading from COM4: > or whatever port in a thread maybe one byte at a time? Maybe you can > get your end functionality without writing low levels stuff, depending ;-) > > I haven't done this, but it seems an easy thing to try a few experiments with. > The control panel should let you set baud rates and handshaking etc. I would > think.
PySerial[1] is more than capable of handling all the low level operations with little more than 's.baud = 9600'. The OP was more interested in how to write his program so he could react to com port input in a timely manner in the face of having blocking procedures elsewhere in his code. Regards, Stephen Thorne [1] http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
