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Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie]

From	Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject	Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie]
Date	2012-02-07 15:02 +0100
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Antti J Ylikoski wrote:

> On 7.2.2012 14:13, Jean Dupont wrote:
>> ser2 = serial.Serial(voltport, 2400, 8, serial.PARITY_NONE, 1,
>> rtscts=0, dsrdtr=0, timeout=15)
> 
> In Python, if you want to continue the source line into the next text
> line, you must end the line to be continued with a backslash '\'.
> 
> So you should write:
> 
> ser2 = serial.Serial(voltport, 2400, 8, serial.PARITY_NONE, 1, \
> rtscts=0, dsrdtr=0, timeout=15)
> 
> and analogously.
> 
> Hope that this will help.  Andy.

This is wrong. A line with an open parenthesis is continued automatically:

>>> zip("abc",
... "def")
[('a', 'd'), ('b', 'e'), ('c', 'f')]
>>> ("abc"
... "def")
'abcdef'
>>> 1 + 2 + (
... 3)
6

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how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Jean Dupont <jeandupont115@gmail.com> - 2012-02-06 13:40 -0800
  Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-02-07 00:07 -0500
    Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Jean Dupont <jeandupont115@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 04:13 -0800
      Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-07 15:48 +0200
        Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-07 15:02 +0100
          Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-07 19:44 +0200
        Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-02-07 15:04 +0100
          Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Jean Dupont <jeandupont115@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 06:46 -0800
      Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie] Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-07 12:44 -0500

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