In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin Blume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a number-crunching application that spits out >a lot of numbers. Now I'd like to pipe this into a python >app and plot them using Tkinter, such as: >$ number_cruncher | myplot.py >But with Tkinter once I call Tkinter's mainloop() I >give up my control of the app and I can't continue to >read in data from stdin. Or can I? If so, how? One way is to use a thread to read the numbers, then make them available to the main thread via a Queue object, which you poll for new values. Another option is to use a Tk-compatible file or socket of some kind which triggers a callback when data comes in. See <http://www.astro.washington.edu/rowen/TkinterSummary.html#FileHandlers> some ideas on this. -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
