[Tutor] Serial communication ...

2010-09-13 Thread Markus Hubig
Hi @all! I'm about to write a class for serial communication on Win32 and Linux which provides a method called "talk" to send something over the serial line, wait for the answer and returns it. My problem is, that I don't know how long the answer will be (ok max 260 bytes but most answers are much

Re: [Tutor] Serial communication ...

2010-09-13 Thread Markus Hubig
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, André da Palma wrote: > Last year i was working with serial communication as well and there is > already a library for python, i guess it's pySerial. Try to google it, > perhaps it can be useful for you. Yes you're totally right! And that's the package im using

Re: [Tutor] Serial communication ...

2010-09-13 Thread Markus Hubig
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Adam Bark wrote: > Ideally you would send a specific ending packet and you read one byte at a > time until the > right sequence comes up. Alternatively you could have the first byte as a > length indicator. > Oh my dear! You're damn right! The protocol im impleme

[Tutor] for statement with addition ...

2009-07-13 Thread Markus Hubig
Hi @all, within diveintopython I often found a for-statement like this: f for f in bla: print f So what actually is the first f for ... is it just to declare f before starting the for loop? I can't find any information on python.org and it's hard to google this kinda stuff. - Markus -- --

Re: [Tutor] for statement with addition ...

2009-07-13 Thread Markus Hubig
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Markus Hubig wrote: > >> Hi @all, >> >> within diveintopython I often found a for-statement like this: >> >> f for f in bla: >>print f >> >> So what actually is the first f for ... is i