Parsing data from pyserial

[Fredrik Lundh]

Si Ballenger wrote:


> I would think a time delay would be needed between the below two
> lines in the code if he expects to get a useable data string back
> from the gizmo for the command sent to it. 
> 
>   ser.write("TC 016 240 100 240 016 240\r\n")
>   reading = ser.read(40)

why's that?  if the gizmo is busy "doing its thing", read() will wait 
for up to one second before giving up.

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