Reading form serial port strangeness

[nige777]

wow, thanks for the reply Wayne, thats great to know

-not at the office today which is where the GPS unit is however I have a quick question about implimenting readSerial - I know its my lack of OO know-how but I am a little confused as to how to pass the open serial port to the function
In my first attempts I did something like this:

ser = serial.Serial(0, 4800, timeout=1)

- I'm now aware that the timeout parameter was incorrect and neither is this:-

readSerial(ser)

Sorry for my n00bishness but I'd be very grateful for any pointers you could give me
??