On Sep 6, 1:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville M. Vainio) wrote:
> Background: PyOS_InputHook is something that gets run when python is
> doing raw_input. TkInter and friends use it to run their event loops,
> so that their events are handled while python is doing raw_input.
>
> What I'd like to do is run the same function without having to do
> raw_input. I.e. I'd like to run whatever event loop is available,
> without incorporating any gui-specific code (PyOS_InputHook seems like
> a nifty way to accomplish this).
>
> My actual use case is to keep a tkinter application responsive while
> launching a background process (and waiting for it to complete!).
>
> My eventual code would be something like:
>
> launch_process_in_thread('bzr pull')
>
> while not is_done:
> pyos_inputhook()
> time.sleep(0.1)
>
> print "Done!"
I'm still recovering from a hangover, so don't quote me. I think you
want the "after" function:
launch_process_in_thread('bzr pull')
self.update()
def update(self):
while not self.is_done:
self.after(2000, self.update)
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