Queue and signals

[hg]

Hi,

Is it legal to use Queue.put in a signal handle and Queue.get in the main
process (no thread)

Thanks,

hg

 

[hg]

Hi,

Is it legal to use Queue.put in a signal handle and Queue.get in the main
process (no thread)

Thanks,

hg

PS: and if not is there a way to share data between a "main" and its signal
in a safe way (write in signal and read in main)

Thanks,

hg

 

[hg]

hg> PS: and if not is there a way to share data between a "main" and
its hg> signal in a safe way (write in signal and read in main)

The Queue module was designed to work in multithreaded contexts. I doubt
it
will work as expected in a nonthreaded application. Given that your
application isn't multithreaded I suspect you can just modify an object
that
both your signal handler and the rest of the application reference. In
particular, there's no reason your signal handler can't be a method of an
instance:

import signal
import time

class MyClass:
def __init__(self):
self.alarm_rang = False
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.ring_alarm)
signal.alarm(2)

def ring_alarm(self, sig, frame):
self.alarm_rang = True

obj = MyClass()
print obj.alarm_rang
time.sleep(4.0)
print obj.alarm_rang

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Hi,

Well, so far it seems to work ...

The signal handler gets "called" by another application which in turn will
stuff info in my sys.stdin, I need then to "raw_input" the info and put it
in some type of data structure in a safe way so my main loop can then
reader/pop it.

ref: (ps: I'm trying to setup a Python high level interface for my kids to
learn the language / be interested) http://realtimebattle.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

hg

 

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hg> PS: and if not is there a way to share data between a "main" and its
hg> signal in a safe way (write in signal and read in main)

The Queue module was designed to work in multithreaded contexts. I doubt it
will work as expected in a nonthreaded application. Given that your
application isn't multithreaded I suspect you can just modify an object that
both your signal handler and the rest of the application reference. In
particular, there's no reason your signal handler can't be a method of an
instance:

import signal
import time

class MyClass:
def __init__(self):
self.alarm_rang = False
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.ring_alarm)
signal.alarm(2)

def ring_alarm(self, sig, frame):
self.alarm_rang = True

obj = MyClass()
print obj.alarm_rang
time.sleep(4.0)
print obj.alarm_rang

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