DoEvents equiv?

[Alex Martelli]

"Costas Menico" <costas at meezon.com> wrote in message
news:3afbc3ce.2377238 at News.CIS.DFN.DE...
> Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:
>
> >Scott Hathaway wrote:
> >
> >> What is the equivalent in Python for VB's DoEvents on Windows?
    ...
> I thought thats what time.sleep(x.xx) did? It relinquishes control to
> the OS..

It does relinquish control (for at least x.xx seconds), but
it's not equivalent to DoEvents because it does not service
the thread's message queue.


Alex