pyserial - How to read the last line sent from a serial device

Question

I have an Arduino connected to my computer running a loop, sending a value over the serial port back to the computer every 100 ms.

I want to make a Python scr

Answer 1

You will need a loop to read everything sent, with the last call to readline() blocking until the timeout. So:

def readLastLine(ser):
    last_data=''
    while True:
        data=ser.readline()
        if data!='':
            last_data=data
        else:
            return last_data