On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:18:25 +0100, John O'Hagan <resea...@johnohagan.com>
wrote:
Now I can change the output of the "work" function while it's running via
raw_input(). However it's very crude, not least because the terminal
echo of
the new options is interspersed with the output of the program.
In future I hope to be able to have several instances of the "work"
function
running as threads simultaneously, and to separately control the
arguments to
each.
I think the general problem is how to send output from a thread to a
different
place from that of its parent thread, but I'm not sure.
Is there a standard way to do this kind of thing? In particular, I'm
after a
solution whereby I can enter new arguments in one terminal window and
observe
the program's output in another.
The standard way (if you don't want to write a GUI for the whole thing)
is to have separate programs communicating with sockets. Start your
music program in one terminal and the control program in the other,
and have a thread listening to the socket rather than using raw_input().
Exactly what processing your control program should do before tossing
the data through the socket is a matter of religious debate :-)
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