[PyQt] Basic thread question

[Florian Bruhin]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:01:57AM +0000, Phil wrote:
> Now just suppose I need to transmit, or receive, a lot of serial data using
> pyserial. The GUI would be blocked during the transmission. Surely that
> would be candidate for a thread?

While you can use PySerial in a thread (as long as you don't directly
manipulate the GUI from that thread), the easier alternative is probably to use
Qt's QSerialPort module which does the same kind of thing but non-blocking.

Florian

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