Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Thursday 11/1/2007 03:43, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> while threading.activeCount() > 1: >> time.sleep(0.001) >> >> sys.exit(0) >> >>Is there any way to allow my program to respond to signals without >>having to busy-wait in the main thread? > > Don't worry too much, this is *not* a busy wait, because you use > sleep. You can use a longer sleep, it will be terminated by any > signal. But not too long, or the check for activeCount() will be delayed > in excess. (I use sleep(1) usually but your needs may be different)
Well, if this is the best that we can currently do in python, then so be it. My sincere thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
