Reading form serial port strangeness

[nige777]

Ok, I am back in the office.


The code I have been using to connect to the GPS is as follows:

while 1:
	ser = serial.Serial(port=0, baudrate=4800, timeout=0)
	line = ser.readline()
	print line  #DEBUG
	ser.close()

"line" is then passed to a parser which has been developed with the aid of a text file of a GPS output (NMEA).
I've included two text files - GPS DUMP is what is received when the GPS is outputting NMEA sentences and the TXT file shows what is received when the GPS unit is outputting text only.

I really like your buffer method but am at a loss on how to implement it
I am off to pour over the documentation for PySerial again as I am sure I'm missing something obvious