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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Features
- The files in this package are 100% pure Python.
They depend on non standard but common packages on Windows (win32all) and
Jython (JavaComm). POSIX (Linux, BSD) uses only modules from the standard
- python distribution)
+ Python distribution)
- The port is set up for binary transmission. No NULL byte stripping, CR-LF
translation etc. (which are many times enabled for POSIX.) This makes this
module universally useful.
@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ ser = serial.Serial(
rtscts=0, #enable RTS/CTS flow control
)
-The port is immediatley opened on object creation. Options:
-timeout=None # wait forever
+The port is immediately opened on object creation.
+Options for read timeout:
+timeout=None #wait forever
timeout=0 #non-blocking mode (return immediately on read)
timeout=x #set timeout to x seconds (float allowed)