You can hook the it on the main thread and just pass it. And let the threads execute.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar>wrote: > En Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:42 -0200, Maxim Khitrov <mkhit...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > > I'm looking for a function in the standard library or pywin32 package >> that will block until a certain condition is met or it is interrupted >> by Ctrl-C. For example, time.sleep() would have been perfect for my >> needs if thread.interrupt_main() could interrupt the call from another >> thread in the same way that Ctrl-C does. Unfortunately, that is not >> the case. >> >> Another thing I tried was creating a pipe with os.pipe() and issuing a >> read call on it. The event to exit was a single byte written to the >> other end of the pipe, but Ctrl-C could not interrupt the read call. >> The threading.Event class does not work for me, because it uses short >> sleep intervals for timed waits. I need the reaction to be as close to >> instant as possible, something like this will not do: >> >> while not <some condition is met>: >> sleep(0.01) >> >> I actually replaced threading.Event with my own version that uses >> native Windows events, and waits on those also cannot be interrupted >> by Ctrl-C. I'm trying to achieve the same effect as that while loop >> and I don't care what the condition to exit is, but the loop needs to >> exit as soon as the condition is met without waiting for up to X >> additional milliseconds. Any ideas? >> > > You may try MsgWaitForMultipleObjects - send a message to the main thread > from the other thread. > An alertable wait (like SleepEx) plus QueueUserAPC should work, I presume, > but I've never actually tried in Python. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://www.astorandblack.com
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