Ultrabasic code for reading a geiger counter

gistfile1.py

import serial 
#to use the serial library, you need to have pyserial installed, otherwise it won't find the serial library
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/tty.usbserial-A9014NPA',9600) 
#Above we create a new serial object 


the_time = 0
counter = 0
while(1):
  ser.read() 
  counter = counter +1 
  print "Time since last click:" + str(time.time() - the_time)
  the_time = time.time()
  print "Number of clicks since script started: " + str(counter)