Continually check object status

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> I was afraid that someone was going to mention threading.  I have read
> about it before but not been able to do much with it.
> 
> My ultimate goal is to create some sort of tamagotchi style virtual
> pet to interact with.  Over time it gets hungry or bored, but the
> process can be fixed by a user "feeding" or "playing with" it.  I
> wanted to take this opportunity to teach myself some PyGTK coding as
> well, but I thought that maybe I could build the creature object and
> looping in such a way that it would be possible to add a GUI to it
> later.

No, that's not possible. But when you use GTK, there are timer-functions 
that let you register a timer event which will then invoke a callback in 
which you can check whatever status you like.

Diez