On 2009-08-14, Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: > In the meantime I have had another idea which I have also not tried yet, > namely to do independent opens for reading and writing, to give me two file > instances instead of one, and to try with that. I have no idea if it would > make any difference, or even work at all.
That should work (and shouldn't make any difference) > My normal stuff works, but I do not like it as it is > essentially busy looping with short sleeps in between. In the > eBox, it uses most of the processor just to move a few bytes > of I/O in and out between the serial port and the TCP/IP, and > struggles to do that better than five times a second, while > the message time on the 115200 baud port is only about 2 > milliseconds. What platform are you using? I suppose it's possible that there's something broken in the serial driver for that particular hardware. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I feel ... JUGULAR ... at visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list