(Win32 API) callback to Python, threading hiccups

[Christopher Subich]

Francois De Serres wrote:
> - so, on callback, I create a new thread, after checking that the 
> previous one has returned already (WaitOnSingleObject(mythread)) so we 
> only have one thread involved.

Uh... to me, this looks like a frighteningly inefficient way of doing 
things.  How about using a synchronous queue to post the data to a 
processing thread?  That way, you don't have to create an entierly new 
thread each time you receive data in the callback.