[Python-Dev] Event loops, PyOS_InputHook, and Tkinter

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> I wonder why nobody has suggested a seperate thread for managing the  
> GUI and
> using the hook in Python's event loop to issue the call to update_plot.
>
Ha. That's probably the best solution I've heard so far, short of adding 
a Tcl-like event loop API to Python.
There are two remaining issues though:
1) Currently, there's only one PyOS_InputHook. So we're stuck if we find 
that some other extension module already set PyOS_InputHook. An easy 
solution would be to have an PyOS_AddInputHook/PyOS_RemoveInputHook API, 
and let Python maintain a list of input hooks to be called.
2) All extension modules have to agree to return immediately from a call 
to the hook function. Tkinter currently does not do this.

--Michiel.

-- 
Michiel de Hoon
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University
1150 St Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032