On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Ryan May wrote: > > > > Any idea if it's possible to finish a Python program but still have > the > > graph showing? > > > > FWIW, I'm doing this under Linux. > > > > > > You'd have to run the plotting in a separate process from the > > computation. subprocess would let you do that, assuming you can spin > > off a child task that stays alive when the parent exits. You'd also > > need to get the computing process to give new results to the child plot, > > maybe using a pipe (which I think subprocess can handle as well.) > > Thanks Ryan, I have been meaning to explore Python's > threading/multi-processing facilities, so this will provide a > good excuse to do so :-) [when I find the time... so much to learn, > so little time]
I was curious, so I cooked up a quick demo using two scripts. Put them in the same directory and run datasource.py. It's not perfect, and I think the use of raw_input() is a little odd, but it works. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma Sent from Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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