You should not start a thread from a web2py thread (without lots of caveats).
Massimo On Jun 3, 4:46 pm, Juan <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I've made a web2py application that uses AJAX long polling for > bringing content to the browser at realtime, but in order to optimize > it I want a request to be locked until some event ocurrs so the AJAX > request function does not need to do periodic polling (reducing cpu > usage and latency). Is there any way to archieve something like this? > > I know the use of threading in web2py is disencouraged but this is > just an example of how it would be, here "lock" function should not > return until "release" function is called: > > [code] > import threading > e = threading.Event() > > def lock(): > session.forget() > session._unlock(response) > e.wait(60) > return 'ready' > > def release(): > e.set() > return 'done' > [/code] > > thanks > Juan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
