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titaniumdecoy · Jul 20th, 2006, 4:44 PM

This thread is essentially a continuation of this one; however, my problem now is translating BASIC code to Python.

I got ahold of a small piece of BASIC code someone was using to communicate with the device I described which connected to the serial port:

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INPUT ; "Enter filename to save data- ", outfile$
OPEN outfile$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1

OPEN "COM1:9600,O,7,1" FOR RANDOM AS #2
PRINT #2, "01,TEMP?"
INPUT #2, A$, B$
INPUT #2, C$, D$, E$, F$

PRINT #1, TIME$, C$, D$, E$, F$

If it's possible to do this in just a few lines of BASIC code, it doesn't make sense to me that it should require an entire module (eg, PySerial) to do the same thing in Python. Is there a simpler way to translate this? Thanks for any input.

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Jul 20th, 2006, 4:44 PM	#1
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 936 Rep Power: 4	Serial Communication: BASIC to Python This thread is essentially a continuation of this one; however, my problem now is translating BASIC code to Python. I got ahold of a small piece of BASIC code someone was using to communicate with the device I described which connected to the serial port: (Toggle Plain Text) INPUT ; "Enter filename to save data- ", outfile$ OPEN outfile$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1 OPEN "COM1:9600,O,7,1" FOR RANDOM AS #2 PRINT #2, "01,TEMP?" INPUT #2, A$, B$ INPUT #2, C$, D$, E$, F$ PRINT #1, TIME$, C$, D$, E$, F$ INPUT ; "Enter filename to save data- ", outfile$ OPEN outfile$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1 OPEN "COM1:9600,O,7,1" FOR RANDOM AS #2 PRINT #2, "01,TEMP?" INPUT #2, A$, B$ INPUT #2, C$, D$, E$, F$ PRINT #1, TIME$, C$, D$, E$, F$ If it's possible to do this in just a few lines of BASIC code, it doesn't make sense to me that it should require an entire module (eg, PySerial) to do the same thing in Python. Is there a simpler way to translate this? Thanks for any input.

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