Maybe I am missing something. Expect data is comming continually to the
serial port for the period say 10min. (say form the GPS), than it stops
for 1 minute and so on over and over. I would like to log such a data
to the different gzip files.
My example was written just for the simplicity (I was trying to
demonstrate the problem, it was not the real code and I was really
tired trying to solve it by myself, sorry for the bugy example)
the better way how to write such a infinite loop can be probably:
===== 8< =====
g=0
x=0
while 1:
if not g:
x+=1
g=gzip.GzipFile("/root/foofile%s.gz" % x,"w")
data=dataOnSerialPort()
while data:
myFlag=1
g.write(data)
data=dataOnSerialPort():
else:
if myFlag:
g.close()
pring g
myFlag=0
But it looks like g.close() method does not close the file (while
trying to print the g object, it still exists)
> Your while loop is discarding result of dataOnSerialPort, so you're
> probably writing empty string to the file many times. Typically this
> kind of loop are implemented using iterators. Check if your s object
> (is it from external library?) already implements iterator. If it does
> then
>
> for data in s:
> g.write(data)
>
> is all you need. If it doesn't, you can use iter to create iterator for
> you:
>
> for data in iter(s.readLine, ''):
> g.write(data)
>
> -- Leo
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