How does a threading.Thread yield the rest of its quantum in Python?

Question

I\'ve got a thread that\'s polling a piece of hardware.

while not hardware_is_ready():
    pass
process_data_from_hardware()

But there are

Answer 1

If you're doing this on *nix, you might find the select library useful. Kamaela also has a few components you may find useful, but it may require a bit of a paradigm change.