[Tutor] Mainloop conflict

[Dave Angel]

On 07/29/2011 11:08 AM, Christopher King wrote:
> I was afraid of that.
>
Please don't top-post.  It's becoming more prevalent on this list, but 
it makes things very confusing.  I need to put my response just after 
yours, but then the other relevant pieces are out of order.
> On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Dave Angel<d at davea.name>  wrote:
>> On 07/28/2011 08:32 PM, Christopher King wrote:
>>> Dear Tutor Dudes,
>>>      I have a socket Gui program. The only problem is that socket.recv
> waits
>>> for a response, which totally screws Tkinter I think. I tried making the
>>> timeout extremely small (it was alright if I didn't receive anything, I
>>> was excepting that a lot) but I think that screwed socket. Anyone have
> words
>>> of wisdom.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>      Me
>>>
>> Sure:
>>
>> Do the socket I/O on a separate thread.
>>
>> --
>>
>> DaveA
>>
>>
>
Threads aren't that tough in Python.

Threads aren't always helpful in CPython, because of the GIL. But this 
is one case where they are.  And somebody has pointed out a library 
which presumably hides the thread details from you.



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DaveA