Thread blocking problem

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Mar 31 12:21:24 EST 2002

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In article <uaegdmkatlbf18 at corp.supernews.com>,
Garyr <garyr at fidalgo.net> wrote:
>
>I have a program consisting primarily of a simple Tinker GUI and in separate
>thread some code that invokes a function in a C++ extension module that
>blocks on WaitForSingleObject most of the time. The Python code is a
>producer and the C++ code the consumer, a sound card driver.
>
>Shouldn't the GUI be responsive when the code in the thread is blocked?

Not unless you've released the Global Interpreter Lock.  See
http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/threads.html
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