Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Re: Python bindings for lcd4linux?

[Dan F. <tem...@ya...>]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:32 +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote:
> Hi Dan again,
> 
> > I'm currently trying to steal some threading code from the plugin_exec
> > to put into the plugin_python. I have this idea of creating a 
> > really slow version of the python::exec function, because then i could 
> > easily create plugins for upload and download status of eMule and
> > mldonkey (with a polling period of 5 minutes or so).
> 
> Why sould it be very slow? I think that python gets initialized only
> once, further calls to python::exec() should be quite fast?
True

> 
> If you define an update interval of 5 minutes to the widget calling
> python::exec, I see no problem here....

You are correct, i was not very clear. What i was trying to say is that
it needs a slow update interval so that it does not bug the eMule client
too much. 
 
> Or is the problem that the python script itself may take some time? Then
> it would be a good idea to call it in a seperate thread...
> 

And that it needs to be executed in a thread so that it does not slow
down the other timing events of the lcd, it is after all a remote call
(http) to another host and that may take an undefined amount of time.
( i don't think python itself would make us miss a 'tack' )

So what i'm trying to do is simply a threaded version of the current 
plugin_python, then i wouldn't have to login and logout of the 
eMule process every few minutes as the exec version does.

/dan