[PyOpenGL-Users] "reentrant" glutMainLoop() with PyOpenGL?

[andrei s. <sta...@cy...>]

Hi. I am new to OpenGL and PyOpenGL and am looking  for a way to build
an interactive Python command-line driven STL viewer.  STL, or
stereolithography data files, are composed of a sequence of
triangular face definitions (vertices and normals).  For example, I want
to control  (interactively) which portion of the Faces/Normals arrays
are visible by the GLdisplay() function.

glutMainLoop() when called from mymain.main() hangs the interpreter.
Exiting from the GL window, also results in an interrupt of a Python
session. is there a way around this?
I think the same question is this: Can glutMainLoop() be made reentrant.
It appears that glutMainLoopEvent() from the freeglut library will allow
me to do what I want. However my version of PyOpenGL lacks
a binding to this function. (i have PyOpenGL-2.0.1.08)

If there is a solution, I would appreciate some sample code.

Thanks.

-andrei starobin