wx.Frame event handler problems

[nrmn]

i have a function (event handler) inside a wx.Frame subclass which reads 2 kinds of data (differentiated by a prefix char) from a file and updates the text on the UI.

def onStartParsing(self, event):
        file = open('data.txt','r')  
        while 1:
            input = file.readline().strip('\r\n')           
            try:
                if input[0] == '-':     # data A
                    self.data_A_display.SetLabel(input.strip('-'))
                    wx.Yield()
                elif input[0] == '+':   # data B
                    self.data_B_display.SetLabel(input.strip('+'))
                    wx.Yield()
            except IndexError:   # EOF
                file.close()
                break

what i'd like to do is, if i click a button or an item in a menu, it will send the input variable to another pc through sockets. i am lost at how to 'update' the function such that it would look something like this:

# after a user has clicked a button
def onStartParsing(self, event):
         file = open('data.txt','r')  
        sock_a = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)
        sock_a.bind(ADDR)

         while 1:
             input = file.readline().strip('\r\n')   
            sock_a.sendto('%s' % input, ADDR)        
             try:
                 if input[0] == '-':     # data A
                     self.data_A_display.SetLabel(input.strip('-'))
                     wx.Yield()
                 elif input[0] == '+':   # data B
                     self.data_B_display.SetLabel(input.strip('+'))
                     wx.Yield()
             except IndexError:   # EOF
                 file.close()
                 break

another solution i thought was to create another event handler that contains the following body above, but it should terminate/stop running the while loop in the original onStartParsing event-handler. problem is i don't know how.

other solutions, suggestions are very much welcome.

-norman ancajas

       
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