Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com>: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:34:54 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >>Alas, a thread can't check anything because it's blocked by I/O. > > My response to that then is: design the thread's I/O so that it > is not blocking... On Linux, maybe a timed select(); Windows? short > sleeps around a non-blocking check for available data... (if console > I/O, msvcrt.kbhit(); otherwise may need some other library function to > put a time-out on the I/O)
Ah, polling, the fig leaf that covers embarrassing design constraints all over the world. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
