Hi All,
I am running Python 2.5 on Windows and I have an issue/problem whilst
accessing/using a serial port. I have a piece of test equipment that needs a
control line to enable/disable its power. So I have connected the DTR of a
serial port to my equipment and I can happily control power by opening the
serial port and then enabling/disabling the DTR line (using pySerial). However,
occasionally I get an exception raised (win32file.EscapeCommFunction
(self.hCommPort, win32file.SETDTR), pywintypes.error : (5,
'EscapeCommFunction', 'Access is Denied') ) From what I can gather, this
exception is raised when the resource in question (in this case my serial port)
if already in use by another entity. Now that's fine, but no other process /
application on the machine is (to the best of my knowledge) accessing this
serial port. My application is single threaded.
The frequency with which this issue occurs also leaves me little in the way of
clues - I can run the SW for 3 days or so until it happens or it will run for
only about 12-hours before I run into trouble.
Can anyone offer any insights into this either in terms of telling me why this
may be happening or suggest how I may gather some info from the system as to
who or what currently has the serial port 'locked'.
As the serial port is giving me 'access denied' I am also a little unsure of
what is a sensible course of action. If the port is not under my control, then
I may not be able to close it. If I can't close it then I may be in a spot of
bother regarding a path for recovery from this situation.
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Andy Atkinson
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