read function in python serial

[Fredrik Lundh]

"sinan ." <orome.the.valar at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi i`m developing a program that reads the serial device. i like the
> readline() function, but readline() depends on \n character, i want a
> similar function that waits for a specific character or string that i
> gave like [ETX] (hex03) how can i do this ?

call read(1) repeatedly until you see chr(3).

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