On Jun 21, 4:46 pm, Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Saturday 21 June 2008 15:26:53 joamag, vous avez écrit : > > > HI, > > > Is there any possible way to unblock the sys.stdin.readline() call > > from a different thread. > > Something like sys.stdin.write() but that would actually work ... > > something to put characters in the stdin... > > Do you mean setting stdin in non-blocking mode ? On unix you can do it with > the fcntl module (you'll find more infos in the libc docs) : > > fcntl.fcntl(sys.stdin, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK) > > and catch IOErrors with errno = EAGAIN. But I don't know how to do it in a > portable way, suggestions welcome :) > > -- > Cédric Lucantis
Thanks for the advice that's a way of solving my problem, but I really need a portable way of doing it... The application I’m build is meant to be run in more platforms than Unix ... so I really need a portable way of doing that or something else that unblocks the read call in the stdin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
