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Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds
Date 2015-01-15 16:15 +0200
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:34:54 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
>>Alas, a thread can't check anything because it's blocked by I/O.
>
> 	My response to that then is: design the thread's I/O so that it
> is not blocking... On Linux, maybe a timed select(); Windows? short
> sleeps around a non-blocking check for available data... (if console
> I/O, msvcrt.kbhit(); otherwise may need some other library function to
> put a time-out on the I/O)

Ah, polling, the fig leaf that covers embarrassing design constraints
all over the world.


Marko

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Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-01-14 19:35 -0500
  Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-15 11:34 +0200
    Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-01-15 09:11 -0500
      Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-15 16:15 +0200
        Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-15 17:29 +0200

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