i want to add a timeout to my code

[Miki]

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

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