call to pypcap in separate thread blocks other threads

[aspineux]

On Dec 30, 1:34 pm, Dmitry Teslenko <dtesle... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm making gui gtk application. I'm using pypcap
> (http://code.google.com/p/pypcap/) to sniff some network packets.
> To avoid gui freezing I put pcap call to another thread.
> Pypcap call looks like:
>
> pc = pcap.pcap()
> pc.setfilter('tcp')
> for ts, pkt in pc:
>         spkt = str(pkt)
>         ...
>
> Sadly, but this call in another thread blocks gtk gui thread anyway.
> If I substitute pcap call with something else separate thread don't block
> gui thread.
>
> Using another process instead of thead isn't appropriate.
>
> Thread initialization looks like and takes place before gtk.main():
>
> self.__pcap_thread = threading.Thread(target = self.get_city_from_pcap)
> self.__pcap_thread.start()

Did you try using build-in gtk thread ?

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