clearing serial port

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Grant Edwards wrote:


> You need to flush the input buffer in the serial port device
> driver. Under Unix, it's done with the tcflush() system call
> or the corresponding ioctl() call.
> 
> 


Here is what  I do
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termios.tcflush (self.fd, TCIFLUSH)
termios.tcsendbreak (self.fd,1)
buffer = os.read (self.fd,nchars)
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The problem I get from this, is that I don't always get
data if I flush the input buffer. In fact, when I do get data,
it is usually incomplete.