-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hg Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:44 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:
Michael Yanowitz wrote: > Hello: > > I have successfully implemented a Tkinter GUI which has > this (simplified here for explanation): > +-------------------------------------+ > | filename: [ ./test3.py] | > | | > | [Run Script] | > +-------------------------------------+ > > But, now what I would like to do while the script is > running, is replace the "Run Script" with "Abort Script". > > +-------------------------------------+ > | filename: [ ./test3.py] | > | | > | [Abort Script] | > +-------------------------------------+ > > So, every tenth of a seconds or ??? better time, I > would like to 'return' to the GUI and check if the > "Abort Script" button has been pressed. > How do I do this? Or is there a better way to > implement this? > > Thanks in advance: > Michael Yanowitz It depends: As you cannot "kill" a thread in Python, you need some mechanism to stop your script another way (is that a python script or a .sh / .bat ? ... from what you're writing, it seems you're calling some external entity which just might launch a bunch of processes) So do you or not control the inner workings of that external script ? If you don't, then "killing" might be the way as posted / clearly the methord will change from environment to environment. hg -- Yeah, it is a Python script, which I preprocess and then load using __import__(script_filename) So when I preprocess it, I can add/remove codelines and possibly add control of the GUI - the original Python scripts will not know anything about the GUI. Thanks: Michael Yanowitz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
