pyserial: failed to readlines() after many hours running.

[zxo102]

On 10月11日, 下午11时00分, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid> wrote:
> On2008-10-11,zxo102<zxo... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a system. An instrument attched to 'com1' is wireless connected
> > to many sensors at different locations.  The instrument can forward
> > the  "commands" (from pyserial's write()) to those sensors.  Based on
> > the "commands",  the sensors keep sending corresponding data back to
> > the instrument which wraps up those data and put into "com1" . The
> > readlines() of pyserial pick up those data for processing.
> > The data ?string' does not have "\n".
>
> If the data you're reading doesn't contain "\n", then you can't
> use readline() or readlines().
>
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But readlines() can read data out of 'com1' for many hours. Maybe I
should try read().

Ouyang