Serial library for Python needed for some of the Tmote Sky tools

tools/sky/serial/serialutil.py

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+
+class SerialException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+class FileLike:
+    """An abstract file like class.
+    
+    This class implements readline and readlines based on read and
+    writelines based on write.
+    This class is used to provide the above functions for to Serial
+    port objects.
+    
+    Note that when the serial port was opened with _NO_ timeout that
+    readline blocks until it sees a newline (or the specified size is
+    reached) and that readlines would never return and therefore
+    refuses to work (it raises an exception in this case)!
+    """
+
+    def read(self, size): raise NotImplementedError
+    def write(self, s): raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def readline(self, size=None, eol='\n'):
+        """read a line which is terminated with end-of-line (eol) character
+        ('\n' by default) or until timeout"""
+        line = ''
+        while 1:
+            c = self.read(1)
+            if c:
+                line += c   #not very efficient but lines are usually not that long
+                if c == eol:
+                    break
+                if size is not None and len(line) >= size:
+                    break
+            else:
+                break
+        return line
+
+    def readlines(self, sizehint=None, eol='\n'):
+        """read a list of lines, until timeout
+        sizehint is ignored"""
+        if self.timeout is None:
+            raise ValueError, "Serial port MUST have enabled timeout for this function!"
+        lines = []
+        while 1:
+            line = self.readline(eol=eol)
+            if line:
+                lines.append(line)
+                if line[-1] != eol:    #was the line received with a timeout?
+                    break
+            else:
+                break
+        return lines
+
+    def xreadlines(self, sizehint=None):
+        """just call readlines - here for compatibility"""
+        return self.readlines()
+
+    def writelines(self, sequence):
+        for line in sequence:
+            self.write(line)
+
+    def flush(self):
+        """flush of file like objects"""
+        pass
+