Parsing a serial stream too slowly

[Jerry Hill]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, M.Pekala <mcdpekala at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I am having some trouble with a serial stream on a project I am
> When one sensor is running my python script grabs the data just fine,
> removes the formatting, and throws it into a text control box. However
> when 3 or more sensors are running, I get output like the following:
>
> Sensor 1: 373
> Sensor 2: 112$$M-160$G373
> Sensor 3: 763$$A892$
>
> I am fairly certain this means that my code is running too slow to
> catch all the '$' markers. Below is the snippet of code I believe is
> the cause of this problem...
>

That doesn't sound right.  Being too slow seems unlikely to produce the
wrong data...


def OnSerialRead(self, event):
>        text = event.data
>        self.sensorabuffer = self.sensorabuffer + text
>        self.sensorbbuffer = self.sensorbbuffer + text
>        self.sensorcbuffer = self.sensorcbuffer + text
>
>        if sensoraenable:
>                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorabuffer )
>

Here, you search in sensorabuffer (which, by the way, would be much more
readable to me as sensor_a_buffer, as recommended by the PEP 8 style guide).



>        if sensorbenable:
>                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorbenable)
>

here, you're not searching in the buffer, but in the enable flag.



>        if sensorcenable:
>                sensorresult = re.search(r'\$A.*\$.*', self.sensorcenable)
>

And here too.

Does that fix the problem?

-- 
Jerry
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