Reading serial data in realtime in Python

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You can use inWaiting() to get the amount of bytes available at the input queue.

Then you can use read() to read the bytes, something like that:

While True:
    bytesToRead = ser.inWaiting()
    ser.read(bytesToRead)

Why not to use readline() at this case from Docs:

Read a line which is terminated with end-of-line (eol) character (\n by default) or until timeout.

You are waiting for the timeout at each reading since it waits for eol. the serial input Q remains the same it just a lot of time to get to the “end” of the buffer, To understand it better: you are writing to the input Q like a race car, and reading like an old car 🙂

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