python bindings & gmainloop

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 15:11 -0700, Sean Meiners wrote:
>> Is there any way, at all, to use the python bindings without the gmainloop?  
>> The reason I as is that I'm writing a couple of apps in pykde/qt and find 
>> that entering the gmainloop prevents the python interpreter from servicing 
>> any other threads (both python threads and QThreads).  I've worked around 
>> this issue temporarily by creating a function that sleeps for a short time 
>> and passing it to gobject.timeout_add.  This seems to give enough time back 
>> to the interpreter to service other threads, but it just doesn't feel like 
>> the right way to go about it (time-slicing is the kernel's job).  I would 
>> much prefer to use a python thread (or the Qt event loop if necessary) to 
>> service the dbus signal receivers. Is this currently possible?
> 
> For sending you can just use blocking calls but for receiving you need
> to have a main loop that is integrated with D-Bus.  gmainloop shouldn't
> block other threads though.  Can you try making a loop without using
> dbus and see if that also causes the problem in which case it is a bug
> in PyGTK?  If it doesn't then the Pyrex bindings could be holding onto
> the GIL for too long.
> 
> Another point is I recently split out the GLib stuff so anyone is free
> to implement another main loop adapter.  Look at the dbus.py and
> dbus_glib_bindings.pyx files to see how this is done.  Patches are
> welcome.

Oh, cool. :)
So my previous "AFAIR" is much less true now. :-)

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Jakub Piotr Cłapa