[python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port

[Vernon D. Cole]

 I second the suggestion to try pySerial.  I have used it for years to
control RS-232 equipment -- don't know why I did not think of that.
Like Terra-Term, pySerial will use device-level, rather than
file-level APIs to talk to the UART.

Of course, your success will depend a great deal on the skill of the
programmer who wrote the driver for your USB-serial device. The
important part of the work is done in the driver when it processes
interrupts in Kernel mode. The USB adapter I tried -- well, lets just
say it's still sitting in a box of loose parts. That's why I have been
contemplating a Raspberry Pi purchase myself.   Perhaps we should take
this discussion off line and compare notes.

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> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, RayS <rays at blue-cove.com> wrote:
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>> At 08:14 AM 2/15/2014, you wrote:
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>> Vernon
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>> Your suggestion is interesting but not practical for our needs.
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>> Have you profiled pySerial? http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/examples.html
>> I use it in my LX200 serial telescope package
>> http://rjs.org/Python/LX200/LXSerial.py/LXSerial.html
>> http://rjs.org/Python/LX200.zip
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>> - Ray
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