On Apr 24, 3:38 am, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-04-23, blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 23, 2:01 pm, "Martin Blume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> "blaine" schrieb
> >> No,
> >> while 1:
> >> r = self.fifodev.readline()
> >> if r: print r
> >> else: time.sleep(0.1)
> >> is ok (note the "if r:" clause).
>
> >> Martin
>
> > Beautiful! Thanks Martin!
>
> yes, but you have to follow the usual file handling rules, and close/re-open
> the fifo after detecting EOF. You will be blocked on attempting to re-open
> until there is another writing process.
>
> while 1:
> fp = open('my_fifo', 'r')
> while 1:
> line = fp.readline()
> if line == '':
> break
> print line.rstrip() # To prevent printing of \n in line
> fp.close()
>
> Albert
Oh, good call. Thanks a lot, that really helps. I felt that the
previous solution was workable, but not perhaps 100% correct.
Thanks Albert!
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