Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Noboru Yamamoto <[email protected]> · Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:30:21 +0900

Hi,

Zhong Ren wrote:
> Dear Noboru,
> 
> Thank you.  I must say the KEK CaPython314 is very easy to use.
> 
> I am not surprised that your little test below won't crash,
> since it does not contain a wx.Timer.  In order to repeat my
I see.

Each time I started the code, it crashes after some period but the
life-time varies time-to-time. Error message also changes.

I suspect interrupt caused by a timer breaks "Global-Interpreter-Lock"
mechanism, on which CA-Python interface relies on.

SWIG, a tool used in wxPython, supports threads and GIL but I'm not
quite sure if wxPython binary I got from the net uses this feature or
not. I want to check if this options affect the phenomena but it may
take sometime.

> crash, a wx.Timer must be constructed, it must be bound to a
> onTimer function, and it must be started.  Using
> threading.Timer instead of wx.Timer will not cause the crash.
In my environment, threading.Timer also causes the crash. Whoom.

>  I cannot tell who is guilty, wx.Timer or CaPython314.  I also
> have the feeling that Python 2.5 may be the problem.

When I get the new result, I will report it on this mailing list.

Regards,

Noboru

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System