nonblocking reads in windows?

[Joe Connellan]

unfortunately select does not work with files in win32. I've tried the win32all (win32file)
extensions and cannot get them to talk to my com port properly.

Thanks

Joe

Noah wrote:

> Joe Connellan <joec at mill.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3D660F45.F2C0BE8E at mill.co.uk>...
> > I have opened a serial port and if there is nothing there to be read
> > os.read() hangs whereas I want it to return "".
> >
> > if I try to open the fd with
> > port = os.open("COM1", os.O_RDWR | os.O_NONBLOCK)
> >
> > I get an AttributeError saying that os has no attribute O_NONBLOCK. And
> > the windows select module doesn't support filehandles so it seems I
> > cannot do it that way either.
> >
> > Is there any way I can do this on windows?
> >
> > Jon
>
> O_NONBLOCK is a POSIX thing not supported.
>
> Try the select module.
>
> I'm not sure that you can open the COM port this way.
> That may be your main problem.
>
> This example may give you a hint. I could not test it because I could
> not figure out how to open the COM1 port on my Windows machine using
> the syntax you described. I know that the win32all library
> (http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/) has demo code for
> talking to the com ports. It looks very different from this.
> The demo is called win32comport_demo.py. This is probably the route you want
> to go since then you would not have to deal with the blocking problem in
> the same way.
>
> Assuming you can naively open the COM1 port that way then you
> should be able to use select to do non-blocking poll.
> The select part of your problem would look something like this...
>
> import select, os
>
> port_fd = os.open('COM1', os.O_RDWR) # This didn't work for me...
>     # This didn't work either:
>     #     port = open ('COM1:', 'r')
>     #     port_fd = port.fileno
>     # Nor this:
>     #     port = open ('com1', 'r+b')
>
> # Note that timeout is zero.
> # See http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-select.html#l2h-1997
> r, w, e = select.select([port_fd], [], [], 0)
> if port_fd in r:
>     print os.read (port)
>
> Yours,
> Noah