On 2010-05-07, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >> Hello World - >> I'm new to both Python and this list, but here's hoping someone can spot >> my problem. >> >> System: Mac OS-X, 10.6.3 (Intel dual quad processor) >> Using Python 2.6.1, and pyserial-2.5_rc2-py2.6 >> >> The following snippet of code is designed to open a port via a KeySpan >> USB-to-serial converter and communicate with an X10 power line signaling >> system. Before you look at the code, let me mention that my frustration >> is the it executes perfectly if i enter it line by line at the Python >> prompt, and executes perfectly if I run it under the Wing IDE. It fails >> silently (no errors) if I run it as a standalone script. Clearly, I'm >> missing something. > > Well, the timing is vastly different in the two cases you cite. Have > you tried adding some delays in your code?
Never mind. I missed the fact that there were 3 cases. The timing in the IDE (which works) is going to be pretty much the same as when you run it stand-alone (which doesn't work). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Well, I'm INVISIBLE at AGAIN ... I might as well gmail.com pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list