How to let a loop run for a while before checking for break condition?

[Sorin Schwimmer]

to Fredrik Lundh
I'm afraid Claudio Grondi can't use your solution, as
he needs it hosted on Windows, which lacks
signal.alarm.

to Claudio Grondi
How about splitting your loop in two? The first loop
would check for your boolean, which is changed by your
timer, the second loop will check for your "normal"
exit condition?

Sorin

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[Claudio Grondi]

to Fredrik Lundh
I'm afraid Claudio Grondi can't use your solution, as
he needs it hosted on Windows, which lacks
signal.alarm.

to Claudio Grondi
How about splitting your loop in two? The first loop
would check for your boolean, which is changed by your
timer, the second loop will check for your "normal"
exit condition?

I don't understand your proposal. Do you mean using another thread?
I suppose, that wxPython provides something like what I am looking for,
but using it only to speed up a Python loop is sure not an option.
Concluding from lack of responses related to a Windows version of
Fredriks solution I suppose, that there is no way to achieve it with
standard Python on Windows.

Claudio Grondi