Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sending results one at a time to the GUI is going to be slow for any > reasonably fast search engine (I've got a pure Python engine that does > 50k results/second without breaking a sweat). Don't do that. Instead, > have your search thread create a list, which it fills with items for > some amount of time, *then* sends it off to the GUI thread (creating a > new list that it then fills, etc.). While you *could* use a Queue, it > is overkill for what you want to do (queues are really only useful when > there is actual contention for a resource and you want to block when a > resource is not available).
I'd dispute that. If you are communicating between threads use a Queue and you will save yourself thread heartache. Queue has a non blocking read interface Queue.get_nowait(). -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
