[Tutor] threading vs. forking?

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 20:34 2003-07-10 +1200, Thomas CLive Richards wrote:
>The problem i have is that i don't know when data is going to be sent to
>the port, so i have to use a polling method to fetch the data. The
>problem with that is that while the program is polling the serial port,
>the GUI isn't getting updated.

What GUI? For wxPython see
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/LongRunningTasks



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