py-serial + CSV

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-08-24, Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote:

>> import serial
>> s = serial.Serial(port=0,baudrate=4800, timeout=20)
>> while 1:
>> 	line = s.readline()
>> 	words = line.split(',')
>> 	if words[0]=="$GPRMC":
>> 		print words[1], words[3], words[5]
>>
>> I just wonder if there is some beter (or as you are saying "more
>> pythonic":) aproach how to write such a piece of code.
>
> You could use regular expressions instead.

  "There is a programmer who has a problem to solve.  He decides
   to use regular expressions.  Now he has two problems."

> And to make it even more pythonic, replace the "while" and the
> "line = s.readline()" with "for line in s:"

Serial port objects aren't iterable.

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