import time
import serial

ser = serial.Serial('COM3',9600)  #change to suit com port configuration

count = 0
list1=[1]
numsamples = 10
sampletime = 1
sampletime = input("Enter the time between samples in seconds: ")
numsamples = input("Enter the number of samples: ")
#print(sampletime)

ser.write(str(sampletime).encode('ascii')+'\r\n')

while (count < numsamples):
        if (ser.in_waiting > 0): 
                value = ser.readline()
                if count==0:
                        list1[0]=value
                else:
                        list1.append(value)
                print(value)
                count = count + 1

#print"list1[1:5]: ", list1[1:5]
text_file = open('data.txt', 'w')
#textfile.write("%s\n" % item)

for item in list1:
        text_file.write("%s" % item)

print "Good bye!"