what is the best practice to separate Pygtk and long running thread code

[Thomas Guettler]

seb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using pygtk for the first times.
>
> I am wondering what would be the best "pattern" to interface pygtk with
> a thread.
>
> The thread is collecting informations (over the network for example) or
> is doing some long calculations.

Hi,

I would use several *processes*. If your scripts runs on Unix/Linux
you can use select() on the filedescriptors of the processes you created
with popen. On Windows you need to poll them, but maybe this is
better than threads, too. With idle_add you can get data from
the subproceses. It gets called if there are no actions in the
event-loop.

HTH,
 Thomas

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