[Twisted-Python] interaction problems with wxreactor and conch under linux

Chris Mellon arkanes at gmail.com
Wed May 28 16:10:17 EDT 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Mark Dillavou <mlists at line72.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com>
> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I tried your attached program and didn't see the bad behavior you
>> described.
>> I tried it with Twisted trunk at HEAD, Python 2.5.1, and wxPython
>> 2.6.3.2.1.5ubuntu12.  How does this compare to the versions you're using?
>
> I've tried this on ubuntu hardy running:
>
> twisted-2.5.0
> python-2.5.1
> wxpython-2.8.4.0
>
> And I've also tried on a redhat 4 machine with a custom built version of:
>
> twisted-2.5.0 and twisted-8.0.1
> python-2.5.1
> wxpython-2.8.6.0
>
> I don't remember having this issue until several months ago.  It's possibly
> that we we upgrade from wx-2.6 to wx-2.8 this problem showed up.  Let me
> test out an older version of wx and see if I can reproduce this.
>

I've seen reports of this from other people, although I can't recreate
it either. It seems to be related to the idle handler that wx installs
in gtk not being serviced, and I think it's related to the gtk
version. As a workaround, try calling wx.WakeUpIdle() in your wx.Timer
function.




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