DoEvents equiv?

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Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:

>Scott Hathaway wrote:
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>> What is the equivalent in Python for VB's DoEvents on Windows?  
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>It really depends on the GUI system you are running.  In many cases, 
>PumpMessages in either win32ui, win32gui or pythoncom will do the job. 
>For a Tkinter app, it will be something different, but I don't know what 
>that is.
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>> Also, is there a similar function for linux/unix systems?
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I thought thats what time.sleep(x.xx) did? It relinquishes control to
the OS..