[PYTHONMAC-SIG] apps freeze unless they print!

[Joseph J. Strout]

I'm suddenly finding that Python locks up under the following conditions: I
have a program in a loop which is working very hard (or snoozing) for a
long time without printing anything to the console window (sample code
below); I switch to the Finder or any other app; then I switch back --
presto, it's frozen.  By "frozen" I mean that the window is not refreshed,
I can't move it, and I can't switch back to the Finder or any other app; I
have to hit command-period or kill the Python process.

Perhaps the Mac guts are only being updated whenever the console window is
updated.  But I don't really want to clutter up my nice log window with
useless garbage (and system.out.write('') doesn't work either, I tried
it!).  Is there any other way to trigger the Mac event-handling parts?

I'm using Python 1.4 PPC, on a PowerBase 180 running MacOS 7.5.5.  Sample code:

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from time import sleep
t=0
while t < 9999:
	sleep(1)
	#print t	# if this line is included, it works
	t = t+1
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Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

-- Joe


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|    Joseph J. Strout           Department of Neuroscience, UCSD   |
|    jstrout@ucsd.edu           http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/  |
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