On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 12:34:56 AM UTC+12, takowl wrote: > > The kernel (the part where the user's code runs) runs an event loop. This > handles both the user sending code to be executed, and other events such as > widget callbacks. However, it doesn't use separate threads for this, so if > the user executes a cell containing 'time.sleep(10)', the event loop can't > handle anything else until it's finished. >
Have you looked at asyncio in Python 3.5 <https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html>? That would allow the user to execute coroutines that do things like await asyncio.sleep(«interval») without holding up the event loop. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/8a0a9e18-e1cb-4815-9ae8-aaf95d40dec8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
