Without monitoring stdin, you could do the following:
while True:
run the event loop for a specified duration (say, 0.1 seconds)
check for input on stdin; if there is any: break
But you can only do this if wx has such a time-out capability. If not, you can
do the following:
while True:
handle all accumulated events
check for input on stdin; if there is any: break
sleep for 0.1 seconds
The sleep is important, otherwise the CPU is busy 100% of the time, which will
drain your battery.
This loop is essentially what you are doing in your current code, except that
you're using Python/readline for the repeated calls into the hook function.
It's better to have this loop explicitly inside your hook function, because of
the variation in PyOS_InputHook behavior between different versions of
Python/readline.
--Michiel
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] [IPython-dev] [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based
> prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9
> To: "Michiel de Hoon" <mjldeh...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Robert Kern" <rk...@enthought.com>, enthought-...@enthought.com,
> "matplotlib development list" <matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
> "IPython Development list" <ipython-...@scipy.org>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 12:59 AM
> Michiel,
>
> Thanks for the reply, this will help us to find a better
> approach. According to one of the wx devs, Robin Dunn, wx
> currently does not have the ability to monitor stdin in its
> even loop without polling. I guess there is a GSoC project
> to add this capability, but it is not there yet. Any
> thoughts on how this could be done without monitoring
> stdin. I will give the polling stdin approach a try
> though.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> The chunkiness probably comes from the fact that
> inputhook_wx is called repeatedly. This is different from
> how PyOS_InputHook is being used in Tkinter, PyGTK, and the
> Mac OS X backend.
>
>
>
> Schematically, this is how the Tkinter/PyGTK/MacOSX event
> loops work:
>
>
>
> 1) PyOS_InputHook is called when Python is waiting for the
> user to type in the next Python command.
>
>
>
> 2) The hook function sets up the event loop such that stdin
> is being monitored while the event loop is running.
>
>
>
> 3) The hook function then starts the event loop.
>
>
>
> 4) When input is available on stdin, the hook function
> exits the event loop, and returns.
>
>
>
> This is how the proposed Wx event loop currently works:
>
>
>
> 1) PyOS_InputHook is called when Python is waiting for the
> user to type in the next Python command.
>
>
>
> 2) The hook function processes whatever events are
> available at the time.
>
>
>
> 3) The hook function returns.
>
>
>
> 4) If still no input is available on stdin, Python calls
> the hook function again via PyOS_InputHook after a timeout.
>
>
>
> I believe the timeout is 0.1 seconds by default. However,
> Python may not call PyOS_InputHook repeatedly at all; this
> depends on which Python version is being used, and the
> version of the readline library. In some configurations
> (particularly on Windows), PyOS_InputHook is called only
> once, so wx will freeze between Python commands.
>
>
>
>
> I am not familiar with wx, but there hopefully there is
> some way to monitor stdin while the event loop is running?
>
>
>
> --Michiel.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > From: Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com>
>
> > Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] [IPython-dev]
> [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for
> wx 2.8 and 2.9
>
> > To: "Robert Kern" <rk...@enthought.com>
>
> > Cc: enthought-...@enthought.com,
> "matplotlib development list" <matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
> "IPython Development list" <ipython-...@scipy.org>
>
>
> > Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 6:57 PM
>
> > Robert,
>
> >
>
> > Thanks for testing this so quickly. Performance is
> one of
>
> > the big issues that I am concerned about. I will
> work on a
>
> > Cython based version to see if that solves the
> problem.
>
> >
>
> > Cheers,
>
> >
>
> > Brian
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Works for me with wx 2.8.8.1 on OS X 10.5 and
>
> > Chaco. Pan and zoom
>
> >
>
> > interactions are substantially chunky, though. I do
> not see
>
> > such
>
> >
>
> > chunkiness with -wthread. It would be worth exploring
> a
>
> > Cython
>
> >
>
> > alternative to see if it is just ctypes and general
> Python
>
> > overhead to
>
> >
>
> > blame.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > --
>
> >
>
> > Robert Kern
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > "I have come to believe that the whole world is
> an
>
> > enigma, a harmless
>
> >
>
> > enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt
> to
>
> > interpret it as
>
> >
>
> > though it had an underlying truth."
>
> >
>
> > -- Umberto Eco
>
> >
>
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