> I'm running an application that has a polling loop to check a serial port > for certain signals, and on my laptop I can get about 6700 samples per > second, which (of course) consumes 100% CPU; which may impact battery life.
Consuming 100% CPU won't make much difference, the CPU is running all the time anyway (when its not asleep). What will consume batteries much faster is if you are accessing hardware such as disk or modem or other power hungry devices. > Anyone know of: > > 1) a working millisleep/microsleep implementation for python 2.2+? I've never tried in Python but can you use select()? I've used it in C for short duration intervals. Just a thought. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
