[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Python could dictate that the > way to play ball is for other packages (Tkinter, PyGtk, wxPython, etc) to > feed Python the (socket, callback) pair. Then you have a uniform way to > control event-driven applications.
Certainly, if all other event-driven packages are willing to change their ways, they can be made to work together. There's not much that can be done with them the way they are, however. Also, putting the main event loop in Python then gives Python itself a privileged position that it shouldn't necessarily have. Ultimately I think there needs to be an event dispatching mechanism provided by the OS, that is universally used by all packages that want events. With the proliferation of event-driven systems these days, it's becoming as fundamental a requirement as file I/O and deserves serious OS support, I think. Greg _______________________________________________ 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
