Aborting a read with pySerial

I'm using pySerial to read from a serial port.
One thread reads from the port, with no timeout.
Another thread handles output and other tasks. This works
fine until I want to shut down the program. I can't reliably
break the program out of the read when it's waiting. On Windows,
closing the serial port will abort the read, but that seems to have no
effect on Linux.

I know, I could put a timeout on the read and handle all those
null returns. Is there a better way?

John Nagle

John Nagle

In article <4af50316$0$1610$>,
John Nagle <> wrote:
>
>I'm using pySerial to read from a serial port. One thread reads from
>the port, with no timeout. Another thread handles output and other
>tasks. This works fine until I want to shut down the program. I can't
>reliably break the program out of the read when it's waiting. On
>Windows, closing the serial port will abort the read, but that seems to
>have no effect on Linux.
>
>I know, I could put a timeout on the read and handle all those null
>returns. Is there a better way?

No
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