On 2009-12-30, Dmitry Teslenko <dtesle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm making gui gtk application. I'm using pypcap > (http://code.google.com/p/pypcap/) to sniff some network packets. > To avoid gui freezing I put pcap call to another thread. > Pypcap call looks like: > > pc = pcap.pcap() > pc.setfilter('tcp') > for ts, pkt in pc: > spkt = str(pkt) > ... > > Sadly, but this call in another thread blocks gtk gui thread anyway. > If I substitute pcap call with something else separate thread don't block > gui thread.
It sounds like the pcap wrapper code doesn't release the GIL before making a blocking system call. If that's the case, you'll have to do some hacking on the C-language extension module code. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
