nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I need to read a 9 byte response from a device on the serial port. >From reading the pySerial documentation it appears that I can only >read in characters at a time.
Yes, but it is 8-bit characters. That is, characters == bytes in this instance. >If I do: serialport.read(4) >I would get 8 bytes, No. You would get 4 bytes. Do you see documentation to the contrary? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list