[Twisted-Python] Run Twisted reactor from a Thread

[dw+twisted-python at hmmz.org]

If you can, check out Crochet. It wraps up most of the mess involved in
making this work, and vastly simpliies the experience..

    http://crochet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/


David

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:41:17PM +0100, Abdelhalim Kadi wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> 
> When i run reactor from thread in a synchrone python program, the twisted code
> is never called.
> 
> To resolve this problem, I had to put a sleep.
> 
> def _reactor_thread(self):
>     if not self.reactor.running:
>         self.reactor.run(installSignalHandlers=0)
> 
> 
> def _start_thread( self ):
> 
>     self.client_thread = Thread( target=self._reactor_thread,
>                                  name="mine" )
>     self.client_thread.setDaemon(True)
>     self.client_thread.start()
>     from time import sleep
>     sleep( 0.5 )
> 
> What is the best way to do it, instead of calling sleep?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Abdel Halim
> 

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