Pausing a thread using threading class

Question

I have a long process that i\'ve scheduled to run in a thread, because otherwise it will freeze the ui in my wxpython application.

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Answer 1

The multiprocessing module works fine on Windows. See the documentation here (end of first paragraph):

http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html

On the wxPython IRC channel, we had a couple fellows trying multiprocessing out and they said it worked. Unfortunately, I have yet to see anyone who has written up a good example of multiprocessing and wxPython.

If you (or anyone else on here) come up with something, please add it to the wxPython wiki page on threading here: http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks

You might want to check that page out regardless as it has several interesting examples using threads and queues.