run two tasks concurrently

[tony1812]

Hello, I just got a Pi, that what motivated me to learn Python. I am a absolute newbies when it come to python programming,  I joint this forum.

I am making an app I have a script to read data to Pi with serial from sensors in Aduino,
It is a very simple script:

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import serial, time   ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600)   while True :    data = ser.readline()    print str(data)    time.sleep(1) ser.close()

now besides reading data. the Pi also control the a timed relay relay to turn things on and off, so I made a timer script:

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import RPi.GPIO as GPIO import time #GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)   GPIO.setwarnings(False) while True:    GPIO.setup(40,GPIO.OUT)    print ("LED on")    GPIO.output(40,GPIO.HIGH)    time.sleep(1) # Insert here?    print ("LED off")    GPIO.output(40,GPIO.LOW)    time.sleep(1) # Insert here?        GPIO.cleanup()

Now my trouble is (conciliate the two scripts into one) keeping the timer running while reading data concurrently. How does python do that? Do I need to create a a dedicated thread to run them or is there a sinpler way to do it. Thanks.

[Larz60+]

A couple of things to look at:

• - PMOTW messaging between processes
  
• - multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism
  

I would suggest three processes, running the timer separately and
notifying the other processes as required.