i want to add a timeout to my code

[maehhheeyy]

On Apr 29, 3:29 pm, John Krukoff <jkruk... at ltgc.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:47 -0700, maehhheeyy wrote:
> > 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'
> > --
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>
> Are you writing your program on windows, or some other platform which is
> not unix?
>
> --
> John Krukoff <jkruk... at ltgc.com>
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Yeah I'm using Windows 2000.