Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Threading in python?

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:59:24PM -0500, Michael Ford wrote:
> Up until now, all of my networking projects have been in C/C++, and I'd like
> to think that I'm pretty good with threading in those languages. As with the
> previous projects, I feel like threading will be a must. It's true that with
> wireless nodes, I won't be sending/receiving simultaneously with the same
> node. I figure that I'll have the node receiving unless the user inputs a
> file to be sent, so I'll need a thread that does nothing but receive (and
> that sendswhen it needs to), and a thread that constantly looks for user
> input. Should I be implementing the threading on the python level, or can I
> get away with doing this as a C++ file?
> 
> -Michael Ford-

Michael,

You may want to look at the BBN m-block proposal (check the archives
for a link to the latest pdf).  Basically everything becomes event
driven, and the need for explict thread management goes away.

Eric