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

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seb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running on WinXP so that is not so convenient to communicate
> between separate processes.

Can you elaborate?

Windows offers plenty of IPC possibilities, including interprocess
mutexes and semaphores. See for instance:
http://www.codeproject.com/threads/Win32IPC.asp

In the past I've used multiple processes under Python with
activepython's win32pipe for IPC without problems.