[Stackless] How to Schedule Re: Stackless Digest, Vol 27, Issue 13

[Christian Tismer]

Andrew Francis wrote:

> I do little work with UIs. So I may be talking out of
> my hat. However most UIs have an event loop or an idle
> function. I suspect a part of the solution is altering
> the event loop to call stackless.schedule() as much as
> possible if there is no IO activity. In turn, many UIs
> have callbacks. Use the callbacks to communicate via
> channels to some controller (read scheduler) that will
> wake up your tasklets and have them do useful things.
> 
> As for raw_input. I suspect there is a way to use
> asynchronous IO for this too.

I've written a big framework with wxPython and Stackless.
You are right, the key is to schedule tasklets in the
OnIdle event and to request more OnIdle events.

I can submit some sample code when I'm back in Germany

ciao - chris
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