[Tutor] COM Ports

[kromag@nsacom.net]

> 
> Oh, and I don't know anything about accessing serial ports on windows...
> I'm used to just opening the serial device as a filehandle under BSD.
> Sorry :)

But never let a chance like this go to waste.....

I have a project in the works that requires me to read data from a multi-port 
serial card (which I don't have yet - it should arrive in the mail soon) and 
squirt the data into a database.

I am using (at this moment) linux for this particular job, but would have no 
problem switching to Free/NetBSD (I don't think PostGreSQL will run on 
OpenBSD yet...). As I understand it, one has to create a C module to read 
from the serial port in python under unix. I have read the Linux-Serial-
Programming-HOWTO and the C Extentions Overview in Programming Python and am 
beginning to get some idea of how creating such a mawnstah might work, but 
would really like to see some example code that is a little less generic. 
 
Can you or any of the other clueful post some examples or url's for same?

Thanks!

d