[Python-Dev] Signals+Threads (PyGTK waking up 10x/sec).

[Guido van Rossum]

On Dec 8, 2007 2:17 AM, Johan Dahlin <johan at gnome.org> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Adam, perhaps at some point (Monday?) we could get together on
> > #python-dev and interact in real time on this issue. Probably even
> > better on the phone. This offer is open to anyone who is serious about
> > getting this resolved. Someone please take it -- I'm offering free
> > consulting here!
> >
> > I'm curious -- is there anyone here who understands why [Py]GTK is
> > using signals anyway? It's not like writing robust signal handling
> > code in C is at all easy or obvious. If instead of a signal a file
> > descriptor could be used, all problems would likely be gone.
>
> The timeout handler was added for KeyboardInterrupt to be able to work when
> you want to Ctrl-C yourself out of the gtk.main() loop.

Hm. How about making that an option? I don't think on the OLPC XO this
is a valid use case (end users never have a console where they might
enter ^C).

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)