Frederic Wenzel wrote: > On 9/9/06, Frederic Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 9/9/06, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>| I wrote a script on Linux that uses pyserial to read status messages >>>| from a serial line using readlines(). For now, it just displays what >>>| it gets on stdout: >>>| (...) >>>| ser = serial.Serial(port=1, >>>| baudrate=1200, >>>| rtscts=1, >>>| >>>| If the script does not time out there, I am not sure what else it is >>>| doing. It seems to be in a wait state it does not get out of. > > > When it stopped working again (unfortunately) I pressed ctrl c and got > the following outputĂ– > > 14:53 | 0008 | 02 | | 5 |Rack Abs.| - | --752 > 14:53 | 0005 | 02 | | 2 |Rack Abs.| - | 00752 > 14:53 | 0008 | 02 |Traceback (most recent call last): > File "serialhandler.py", line 34, in ? > lines = sh.readLines() > File "serialhandler.py", line 29, in readLines > return self.ser.readlines() > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py", line > 78, in readlines > line = self.readline(eol=eol) > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py", line > 60, in readline > c = self.read(1) > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line > 269, in read > ready,_,_ = select.select([self.fd],[],[], self._timeout) > KeyboardInterrupt > > > Apparently this is the place where it gets stuck. The select.select > line does not return, not even for a timeout. > > Fred Try running your program with
python -i [programname.py] That way after you ^C it you'll be able to poke around a bit in an interactive shell (though I suspect that the stackframe contents will have been lost, so you'll only have globals to look at - that may or may not be enough). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list