[PYTHONMAC-SIG] waiting for events?

Ron Cohen rcohen@humbug.llnl.gov
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:31:06 -0800


If I have python and various other applications open on my Mac,
and I execute a loop with printing in Python, I find that Python
waits periodically to look for events, like mouse motions.  In
particular for a simple thing like:

for i in range(100):
  for j in range(50):
     printj=j
  print i,printj

the execution (printing) slows down and may even come to a hault part
way through if I don't do something like wiggle the mouse.  The
situation is even more dramatic if I click on another application's
window to make it active.  Can someone explain what is going on and if
there is a way to fix this?

I am running Python 1.4 on a powerbook 5300, OS 8, but I have observed
this with 1.4 running on other macs as well; I have no experience
with other versions of Python.

Ron Cohen
(rcohen@llnl.gov)


  

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