Can Python serial support run at 45.45 baud?
MRAB
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Sun Feb 15 09:56:12 EST 2009
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <VJWdnZbZQsVZOwrUnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d at posted.usinternet>,
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>> My guess is that it was _supposed_ to be a CRC routine, but
>> somebody botched it. They used the same botched routine on the
>> host end when they did testing, so nobody noticed it was broken.
>
> Stuff like this happens all the time. That's why RFC 2026 requires,
> "a specification from which at least two independent and
> interoperable implementations from different code bases have been
> developed".
>
> To drag this back on topic, however, it's interesting to note that
> Python itself has been successful, while still being essentially a
> single implementation.
>
That's because it's open source, so many people can test and debug it.
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