Re: [pygame] Threads

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Toni Alatalo wrote:
> i'm doing that too in networked systems - Pete did show me a while back 
> how to do non-blocking downloading without threading using select, which 
> even works on windows for socket connections (but not local files i think, 
> unlike on posix), 
> http://www.tol.oulu.fi/~antont/programming/singlethreaddownload.py
>
> .. but still afaik urllib2.urlopen() can block if e.g. the connection is
> laggy or something, so can't have that regularly in the same thread that 
> is moving graphics / playing video / .. so am still using threads. would 
> like to get rid of that tho, perhaps to have the networking in a separate 
> process, but controlling processes did not seem to be that well supported 
> on windows (forking, killing etc) when last looked at it (am hopefully 
> wrong)

I'm trying to build a sort of chat client that will work with a direct 
connection, possibly a null modem cable. Should I be looking at this 
"thread" concept? I built a working version using the sockets module, 
then heard that I should be treating a null-modem connection as a 
file... somehow.

Kris
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