(Win32 API) callback to Python, threading hiccups

[Francois De Serres]

Christopher Subich wrote:

>Francois De Serres wrote:
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>>- so, on callback, I create a new thread, after checking that the 
>>previous one has returned already (WaitOnSingleObject(mythread)) so we 
>>only have one thread involved.
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>Uh... to me, this looks like a frighteningly inefficient way of doing 
>things.  How about using a synchronous queue to post the data to a 
>processing thread?  That way, you don't have to create an entierly new 
>thread each time you receive data in the callback.
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Thanks for the tip, and sorry for frightening you. Maybe you can help as 
well with my issue?

Francois