from serial import Serial import datetime myDeviceId = '/dev/ttyUSB0' myBaudrate = 9600 ser = Serial(myDeviceId, baudrate=9600) ser.isOpen() logFile = open('data.log', 'w') logFile.write("Time,Counter\n") while True: dataIn = int(ord(ser.readline().strip())) now = datetime.datetime.now() logFile.write("{0},{1}\n".format(now, dataIn)) logFile.flush() print(dataIn)