Bruce Sherwood <bruce.sherw...@gmail.com> writes: > Thanks much for this suggestion. I'm not sure I've correctly > understood the operation "start_new_thread(lambda: __import__(<your > module>), ())". By "your module" do you mean the user program which > imported the module that will execute start_new_thread?
By "your_module", I meant what you have called "user.py" elsewhere in this thread -- the thing that does the animation. Of course, my suggestion implies that "visual.py" is somewhat changed. It is supposed to no longer set up the GUI environment automatically but do so only when its "setup_gui" function is called, and starting the GUI main loop, too, is no longer automatic but explicite. > It hadn't > occurred to me to have A import B and B import A, though now that you > describe this (if that's indeed what you mean) it makes sense. I do not propose to do that -- it can lead to problems. In my proposal, you have two modules: one the "main" module which sets up the GUI environment, starts the animation in a separate thread and then activate the GUI main loop. The second module contains the code you have shown in a previous message. Of course, the second module can be eliminated by putting its content into a function and then calling this function in the "start_new_thread" (instead of "lambda: __import__(...)"). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
