Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > to Fredrik Lundh > I'm afraid Claudio Grondi can't use your solution, as > he needs it hosted on Windows, which lacks > signal.alarm. > > to Claudio Grondi > How about splitting your loop in two? The first loop > would check for your boolean, which is changed by your > timer, the second loop will check for your "normal" > exit condition? I don't understand your proposal. Do you mean using another thread? I suppose, that wxPython provides something like what I am looking for, but using it only to speed up a Python loop is sure not an option. Concluding from lack of responses related to a Windows version of Fredriks solution I suppose, that there is no way to achieve it with standard Python on Windows.
Claudio Grondi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
