Thanks to Matt Hammond and Jonathan LaCour for getting back to me! Jonathan sent me some code which took me several days to figure out, but does _exactly_ what i wanted.
You can find the code he sent (dug out of the medusa distro) here: http://www.thethirdplace.org/grabbag/pyasynccpl/select_trigger.py And how i warped it to my needs here: http://www.thethirdplace.org/grabbag/pyasynccpl/test.py (please don't laugh at the rough code! :) Jonathan's original reply, via email, is quoted here with his permission. Thanks! jos <quote> I saw your post to comp.lang.python about asyncore and making a bit more of an "active" process. The problem with asyncore, as you stated, is that it "reacts" to events on file descriptors (through select/poll). If you have something that occurs in a second thread that could cause data to be available (ie, sending a "pulse" every second), you can use some old code from the medusa web server to do this, which I will attached to this email. You will need to do something like this (I haven't tested this code): from select_trigger import trigger from threading import Thread import time class pulse_thread(Thread): def __init__(self, interval, thunk): Thread.__init__(self) self.trigger = trigger() self.thunk = thunk self.interval = interval def run(self): while True: self.trigger.pull_trigger(self.thunk) time.sleep(self.interval) The pulse thread will pull the trigger how ever often you like, thus waking up the asyncore loop for events being fired. I hope this helps. -- Jonathan </quote> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
