[Python-Dev] Signals+Threads (PyGTK waking up 10x/sec).

[Johan Dahlin]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2007 2:17 AM, Johan Dahlin <johan at gnome.org> wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> Adam, perhaps at some point (Monday?) we could get together on
>>> #python-dev and interact in real time on this issue. Probably even
>>> better on the phone. This offer is open to anyone who is serious about
>>> getting this resolved. Someone please take it -- I'm offering free
>>> consulting here!
>>>
>>> I'm curious -- is there anyone here who understands why [Py]GTK is
>>> using signals anyway? It's not like writing robust signal handling
>>> code in C is at all easy or obvious. If instead of a signal a file
>>> descriptor could be used, all problems would likely be gone.
>> The timeout handler was added for KeyboardInterrupt to be able to work when
>> you want to Ctrl-C yourself out of the gtk.main() loop.
> 
> Hm. How about making that an option? I don't think on the OLPC XO this
> is a valid use case (end users never have a console where they might
> enter ^C).
> 

It could easily be made into a compilation option which would solve the 
problem specifically for OLPC, but it would still be problematic for other 
platforms important to PyGTK (linux/gnome) where console based development
is more common.

Johan