Yannick wrote: > Thank you all for the detailled answers. > > What I would like to achieve is something like: > > # main loop > while True: > for robot in robots: > robot.start() > robot.join(0.2) # wait 200ms > if robot.is_active(): > robot.stop() > # run all the game physics, pause, frame/rate, etc... > > Unfortunately the stop() call doesn't exist in Python. > > By using a generator I would make the assumption that every robot is > playing fair, and would yield often. But I cannot control this as > eventually robots would be coded by third parties. > > Using Python scheduler would allow me to share time equally between > each robot, but then I would loose the ability to have a main thread > organizing everything.
This is just a dim memory, but something called lambdaMOO was (is?) a Multi-User Dungeon that had (has?) a model of processing that allowed you to create programmed objects that received a "budget" of processor time. The objects would not work if they "ran out" of processor time... Perhaps something like this could help you? (Sorry to be so vague.) HTH, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
