On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:32:09AM +0000, Enno Middelberg wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I want to write some code to read data from my GPS receiver. The
>  signals will arrive via a serial link which I want to process and
>  store.
>  
>  I do not have a clue on how to read/write from/to devices using
>  Python. So far, I have only written scripts to process data stored in
>  files. Does anybody know a good starting point for reading or a
>  tutorial?

Twisted <http://twistedmatrix.com/>  has some code in twisted.protocols.gps
for working with GPS devices via a serial port, using the pyserial module.
There's a simple demo of the code in doc/examples/gpsfix.py in the Twisted
distribution.

Regards,

-Andrew.


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