On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:47 -0700, maehhheeyy wrote: > On Apr 17, 4:24 pm, Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 1:10 pm,maehhheeyy<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I want to add a timeout so that when I pull out my gps from my serial > > > port, it would wait for a bit then loop and then see if it's there. I > > > also want to add a print statement saying that there is no GPS device > > > found. However when I run my code and unplug my serial port, my code > > > will just hang until I plug it back in. > > > This is my code right now: > > > > > def GetGPS(): > > > data = [] > > > #Open com1: 9600,8,N,1 > > > fi = serial.Serial(0, timeout = 1) > > > print '[gps module] SERIAL PORT OPEN ON COM1:' > > > > > can anyone help me please? Thanks. > > > > http://docs.python.org/lib/node545.html > > > > HTH, > > -- > > Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://pythonwise.blogspot.com > > I tried the code onto my codes but what came out was that in the line > signal.signal(signal.SIGSLRM, handler), an attributeError appeared > reading that 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGALRM' > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Are you writing your program on windows, or some other platform which is not unix? -- John Krukoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Land Title Guarantee Company -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
