Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Nigel Rantor" <wi...@wiggly.org> wrote: > >> It just smells to me that you've created this elaborate and brittle hack >> to work around the fact that you couldn't think of any other way of >> getting the thread to change it's behaviour whilst waiting on input. > > I am beginning to think that you are a troll, as all your comments are > haughty and disparaging, while you either take no trouble to follow, > or are incapable of following, my explanations. > > In the event that this is not the case, please try to understand my > reply to Skip, and then suggest a way that will perform better > in my use case, out of your vast arsenal of better, quicker, > more reliable, portable and comprehensible ways of doing it.
Well, why not have a look at Gabriel's response. That seems like a much more portable way of doing it if nothing else. I'm not trolling, you just seem to be excited about something that sounds like a fundamentally bad idea. n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list