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Joan Venge
Joan Venge

Reputation: 331280

How to run a block of code without blocking the application in Python?

I have an application that allows you to use a Python startup script. I want to run one part of the code after the application is fully initialized, but there is no way to know this.

I used time.sleep() but then the application hangs till it executes that code. I also transferred the code to another file and used execfile but same result.

So basically I want something like this:

startup script:
    my code
    code to run 5 seconds later

What's the easiest way to achieve this? Do I have to use threading for this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 540

Answers (1)

dragon2fly
dragon2fly

Reputation: 2419

How about at the end of your startup script it writes to or creates a log file contains something like 'initiation complete'.

So another code will check if the file is created or the text is written after each x millisecond and then execute the rest of it.

Upvotes: 1

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