Tag Archives: threading

Sleeping in loops considered harmful

Posted on July 13, 2012 by ejrh

NetBeans gave me an interesting code hint today: Thread.sleep called in loop.

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Debugging wxPython programs

Posted on May 23, 2012 by ejrh

wxPython is a great way to write full-featured native GUI applications in Python.  It’s a wrapper for wxWidgets, a portable windowing toolkit written in C++.  (wxWidgets used to be called wxWindows, but, thanks to Microsoft’s inexcusable penchant for giving all … Continue reading →

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Output synchronisation in Python

Posted on September 18, 2011 by ejrh

A simple trick to making print more atomic.

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