Serial programming

dkhchan at my-deja.com dkhchan at my-deja.com
Sun Jun 13 21:25:06 EDT 1999


I try but not success.  Modem receive my command (I try to dail out)
but I have not get any respone.  Anything I missed??

My program:
#!/usr/bin/python

modem = open('/dev/ttyS0', 'w+')
modem.write('ATZ\r')
print modem.read()  # no respone here
modem.close()

DORAEMON.HK

In article <i5a83.2876$nn.847925 at news.shore.net>,
  "Michael P. Reilly" <arcege at shore.net> wrote:
> DORAEMON.HK <abc at def.ghi.jkl> wrote:
> : I am looking for some example in python about send and receive data
from
> : serial port.  Like send "ATZ" and receive "OK".  Any help?? Thanks
a lot!!
>
> You can open the device file directly and handle the information
> yourself.  UNIX devices are handle just like files.  You can change
> device attributes (speed, parity, etc.) with the termios module or
> fcntl.ioctl function.
>
>   modem = open('/dev/cua0', 'r+')
>   modem.write('AT\r')
>   f = modem.read()
>   if f[:2] != 'OK':
>     raise ValueError, "modem not okay"
>   ...
>
> There are some Expect modules/extensions around that could help you as
> well;  my ExpectPy extention is at
> http://starship.python.net/~arcege/ExpectPy/.  You can find others
> through the Python website.
>
>   import ExpectPy
>   modem = ExpectPy.spawnfile(open('/dev/cua0', 'r+'))
>   modem.send("AT\r")
>   try:
>     f = modem.expect(
>       (ExpectPy.EXACT, "OK\r\n", "OK"),
>       (ExpectPy.GLOB, "*\r\n", "Not OK")
>     )
>     if f == "Not OK":
>       raise ValueError, "modem not okay"
>   except (ValueError, ExpectPy.TimeoutError), value:
>     raise ValueError, value
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>   -Arcege
>
>


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