[Pythonmac-SIG] problem with CarbonEvt, Thread and sleep

[has]

On 2 Jul 2007, at 10:12, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>> Trying to implement a watchdog thread in a Carbon Event-based
>> application. Trouble is, the thread's sleep() call never seems to
>> return.
>
> There is no threading support in the Carbon bindings. The wrapper  
> for RunApplicationEventLoop doesn't give up the GIL, which means  
> other Python threads don't get a chance to run unless the main  
> thread is actually handling events in Python code.

Ahh, should've guessed. I'll redo it in PyObjC then.

Thanks,

has
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