serial and threads

[Neil Benn]

Silke wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I'm trying to write a program in python using the modules
>'serialwin32' and 'thread' to create one thread that writes to a
>
>  
>
<snip>
Hello,

          I've done a similar implementation, I always assume that - 
unless the documentation for a class specifically states that it is 
thread-safe then I assume it isn't.  The way I get around the issue you 
have is to lock access to the serial object (s in your case).  The way I 
get around this is to use the InWaiting method (or whatever the 
equivalent will be in your serial module) which will return how many 
bytes are waiting, then I can read that number of bytes from the serial 
port, store the information and release the lock on that port. :

        self.__objLock.acquire()
        try:
            intNoChars = self.__objSerialPort.inWaiting()
            if (intNoChars > 0):
                strReceivedString = self.__objSerialPort.read(intNoChars)
                self.newMessage(strReceivedString)
            self.__objLock.release()
        except:
            self.__objLock.release()
            raise   

    Obviously you will also want to lock on all other access to the 
port, close, open, write, etc.

    P.S. Please don't start ranting about my use of Hungarian!!

Cheers,

Neil

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