Reading from a FIFO, burning CPU

[Elmar W. Hoefner]

Hi there!

I tried to continuously stream a FIFO into my python script.
I was successful so far, but the performance is not acceptable: If I start
the script, it eats 99% of my CPU cycles. Can anyone give me a hint how to
change this?
I did it this way:

fifo=open("/test_fifo", "r")
while 1:
        line=fifo.readline()
        # to stop the repeated printing of " '' " while nothing is in the fifo:
        if line != '': print line 

Anything better? I'm sure there is, any help is most appreciated! (Google
didn't help me, nor did the archives of this group...)

Thanks in advance,
Elmar

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