[pygtk] More Help: Problems with the solution to: threads and pygtk

[Stephen Langer]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:30 PM, David Hirschfield wrote:

> Here's the issue now: I don't know much about how the garbage  
> collector works in python, and in order to get the thread to run  
> without freezing, I'm wrapping the threaded processing function  
> with calls to gc.disable()/gc.enable().

Will that work?  Does calling gc.disable() on a thread disable  
garbage collection for all threads, or only for the calling thread?   
I suspect that what you want to do is to call gc.disable() once, and  
then call gc.collect() explicitly on the main thread (or whichever  
thread is handling gtk).

  -- Steve

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