tkinter, threads and asyncore together

[Josiah Carlson]

duane voth wrote:

>>#to control asyncore
>>while 1:
>>    asyncore.loop(.1)
>>    if not fromgui.empty():
>>        #handle messages from GUI
> 
> The above doesn't work for me - asyncore.loop(<anything>) always blocks.
> The asyncore.poll(timeout=0.01) functions however works fine.  Thus I have:
> 
>         while 1:
>             tkinter.dooneevent(tkinter.DONT_WAIT)
>             asyncore.poll(0.01)
> 

Sorry about that, I meant poll, but my fingers said loop.  I could have 
sworn that I mentioned it in my followup:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&frame=right&th=b2ddd726d59cdfe6&seekm=c0e4g5%24mug%241%40news.service.uci.edu#link5

  - Josiah