Serial I/O problem with pywin32 ?

[Xavier]

Hi,

I try to access to a Bluetooth GPS data-logger with Python. I use
pySerial.

Sending and receiving little messages (~100 char) works fine. However,
when I ask the GPS to dump the trails, it returns some Mbytes and here
is the problem : in the stream of bytes, I randomly losts chunks of
~100bytes.

I tried USPP and pyBlueZ instead of pySerial : same problem.

It doesn't like it is a bufferoverun bug from me because :
 - the GPS seems to wait when I do not read the stream,
 - there is never more than 200 inWainting() characters,
 - my code to test it is quite simple :

  seriallink = serial.Serial("COM40")
  fileName = "data.dump"
  out = open(fileName, 'w')
  while 1:
    c = seriallink.read()
    out.write(" %0.2X" % ord(c))
    print "*",
  out.close()

(with pyBluez :
sock=BluetoothSocket( RFCOMM )
sock.connect(("00:0A:...", 1)))

I tried my program on two different PC with two Bluetooth dongle,
(with pySerial, USPP, pyBluez).
The same things are :
 - windows
 - the GPS (which works fine with the dumper program of the
constructor)
 - pyWin32

I've found another guy with a similar problem :
http://www.generation-nt.com/reponses/rs232-entraide-142097.html
He says:
 - no problem with little messages
 - lost of one byte every hour when receiving a lot of data

Any known problems with pywin32 and serial I/O when downloading a big
stream of data ?