aahz at pythoncraft
Nov 11, 2009, 5:03 PM
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In article <4af50316$0$1610$742ec2ed[at]news.sonic.net>,
John Nagle <nagle[at]animats.com> wrote:
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>I'm using pySerial to read from a serial port. One thread reads from
>the port, with no timeout. Another thread handles output and other
>tasks. This works fine until I want to shut down the program. I can't
>reliably break the program out of the read when it's waiting. On
>Windows, closing the serial port will abort the read, but that seems to
>have no effect on Linux.
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>I know, I could put a timeout on the read and handle all those null
>returns. Is there a better way?
No
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