[Tutor] newbie: Serial I/O question

[Scott C]

On Tuesday 12 December 2000 16:53, Michael P. Reilly wrote:
> > Hello All,  I'd like to monitor my serial I/O port.  My platform is
> > Linux. I've seen a serial module for windows is there any for Linux??  Or
> > is this not something I should be doing with Python?
>
> What kind of "monitoring" do you want to do?  Detecting when the serial
> port is in use?  Read the data coming through the port?
>
> If you want to handle the port itself, the simplest means is to open
> the device file (e.g. /dev/ttyS0), set the terminal settings (with the
> termios/TERMIOS modules) and read/write the data.  You can also use
> Expect, or Python Expect module/extensions; this will allow you to
> program intelligent "chat" sessions for talking to such devices.
>
> If you just want to see when the device is in use, then you need to
> look at the lock files for your flavor of Linux (often in
> /var/locks/).
>
> Good luck.
>
>   -Arcege
I guess I was not very detailed was I.  I have a device that measures 
conductivity of a liquid used for printing presses.  This info is very vital 
to print quilty and needs to be monitored on a daily basis.  What I've been 
doing is looking at devices that hook up to a pc serial port.  Once hooked up 
I'd like to gather my needed info and dump it too a web page if at all 
possible. Anyway thats a quick and dirty explanation. 
Thanks for the info,  this may be over my head but I'm looking forward to a 
challenge.
Thanks Scott