[SOLVED] pythons PySerial : multiple scripts reading the same serial

Issue

I am using PYSerial to read a Arduino which outputting data through serial to a Raspberry PI. On the PI, I'm running Python script that reads the data using pyserial. I want to run another python scripts that also reads the the same data on the same serial. Would they interfere with each other? I've tested and both scripts seam to read data and it does not crash or lock the port but wondered if problems would occurs? Both scripts perform different functions and I want to keep them separate. Both scripts start with the following code and then do something different when it gets to ##do something##

import serial
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM1', 115200) # just change the port number to the appropriate
while True :
    line = ser.readline().decode("utf-8").rstrip()
    ##do something##

Solution

If two scripts read exactly the same data on the serial port, then the second one will have nothing to read, because after reading a byte, it is removed from the RX buffer.

Answered By - Jerome Favrou