PySerial includes a small console based terminal program called serial.tools.miniterm. It can be started with python-m serial.tools.miniterm. Welcome to pySerial’s documentation¶. This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends for Python running on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant system) and IronPython. Jimi hendrix are you experienced torrent pirate. The module named “serial” automatically selects the appropriate backend.

Interfacing with a RS232 serial device is a common task when using Python in embedded applications. The easiest way to get python talking to serial ports is use the pyserial project found at http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/. This module works on most platforms and is straightforward to use (see examples on project web site). However, getting the read function in this module to operate in an optimal way takes a little study and thought. This article investigates how the pyserial module works, possible issues you might encounter, and how to optimize serial reads.

We start out with several goals as to how we want the application to behave in relation to the serial port:

• application must block while waiting for data.
• for performance reasons, we want to read decent size chunks of data at a time if possible. Python function calls are expensive, so performance will be best if we can read more than one byte at a time.
• We want any data received returned in a timely fashion.

A key parameter in the pyserial Serial class is the timeout parameter. This parameter is defined as:

The Serial class read function also accepts a size parameter that indicates how many characters should be read. Below is the source for the read function on Posix systems (Linux, etc):

The easy way to use this module is to simply set the timeout to None, and read size to 1. This will return any data received immediately. But, this setup is very inefficient when transferring large amounts of data due to the Python processing overhead.

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To meet our goal of reading multi-byte blocks of data at a time, we need to pass the read function a size greater than 1. However, if timeout is set to None, the read will block until size bytes have been read, which does not meet the goal of returning any data read in a timely fashion. The solution then is to:

• set the read size high enough to get good performance
• set the timeout low enough so that any data received is returned in a reasonable timeframe, but yet the application spends most of its time blocked if there is no data.

As an example, a size of 1000 and a timeout of 1 second seems to perform well. When used this way, the pyserial module performs well and returns all data read quickly.