tkinter & serial port

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

 user at domain.invalid fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 29 
September 2002 02:30 pm:

> 
> How do I do this or its moral equivalent under Python so that it
> runs without modification under both BSD and Windows? The closest

        Jump on Bill Gates a few times so he changes windows to allow any data 
stream in a select() <G>

> that I've been able to figure out is to poll the serial device
> a few times per second. This is ugly, involves overhead and generally
> not up to the standard of Python -- clearly I don't yet 'see the
> light.'
>
        Possibly put the serial device I/O into a separate thread, package up 
the lines, and send them using a socket protocol which you can then use 
with select?

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