On Apr 18, 8:29 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > 2. Importing in a thread is discouraged. I think it is cleaner to put > the import sys in the top of the module.
Yes I know I shouldn't import inside of threads, but that is something that is going away, it's just for debugging this issue. On Apr 19, 2:31 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > I looked at it more closely, and I found that the Condition.wait is > stuck on obtaining the GIL while the main thread executes the gobject > main loop. Therefore it also blocks on notifications, not only on the > timeout. Ah-ha! My suspicions were right, then, I remembered something about gobject being incompatible with python threads... but I couldn't find anything in the docs, not even those of gobject, so I assumed my memory was failing me... > It appears that GTK and Python threads are incompatible UNLESS you call > gtk.gdk.threads_init() before gtk.main(). In your case you can do it > after the import gtk in contact_list.py. Then it should work. I'll try to do that > By the way, I wonder why you need a timeout in your wait. I think the > notifications should be sufficient to keep the gui updated. The reason is simple: when first downloading the contactss list, I receive a swarm of *Updated() calls, so if I redraw every time I get a very bad visual effect and I waste a lot of CPU redrawing something that will change in a very very short time. Hence the time constraint... I couldn't come up with something smarter, so... Anyway I wanted to really thank you for your time and your precious advice, I really appreciate it! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
