I'd just like to point out that Queue is not quite as useful as people seem to think in this thread. The main problem is that I can't integrate Queue into a select/poll based main loop.
The other day I wanted extended a python main loop, which uses poll(), to be thread safe, so I could queue idle functions from separate threads. Obviously Queue doesn't work (no file descriptor to poll), so I just ended up creating a pipe, to which I send a single byte when I want to "wake up" the main loop to make it realize changes in its configuration, such as a new callback added. I guess this is partly an unix problem. There's no system call to say like "wake me up when one of these descriptors has data OR when this condition variable is set". Windows has WaitForMultipleObjects, which I suspect is quite a bit more powerful. Regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
