i want to add a timeout to my code

[maehhheeyy]

On Apr 17, 4:24 pm, Miki <miki.teb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 1:10 pm,maehhheeyy<maehhhe... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to add a timeout so that when I pull out my gps from my serial
> > port, it would wait for a bit then loop and then see if it's there. I
> > also want to add a print statement saying that there is no GPS device
> > found. However when I run my code and unplug my serial port, my code
> > will just hang until I plug it back in.
> > This is my code right now:
>
> > def GetGPS():
> >       data = []
> >       #Open com1: 9600,8,N,1
> >       fi = serial.Serial(0, timeout = 1)
> >       print '[gps module] SERIAL PORT OPEN ON COM1:'
>
> > can anyone help me please? Thanks.
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/node545.html
>
> HTH,
> --
> Miki <miki.teb... at gmail.com>http://pythonwise.blogspot.com

I tried the code onto my codes but what came out was that in the line
signal.signal(signal.SIGSLRM, handler), an attributeError appeared
reading that 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGALRM'