[Pythonmac-SIG] Threading and FrameWork.Application

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, april 5, 2002, at 12:18 , Pieter Claerhout wrote:
> I tried to use the threading module to start the XML RPC server in a
> different thread (xmlrpcServer itself also is a threaded piece 
> of code), but
> that seems to conflict with the mainloop. If you start this 
> application, it
> starts the thread, starts the mainloop and stays in there, once 
> you finish
> the mainloop, the thread continues.

You've stumbled on a bug in Framework.mainloop(): it doesn't 
know anything about multiple threads. It gives time to other 
applications (by calling WaitNextEvent) but not to other threads 
within Python. Please file a bug report in the sourceforge 
Python bugs database and assign it to me (so I won't forget to 
fix this).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what mainloop() could do 
to give time to other threads? There must be a way to do this, 
but I don't immediately see it...
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