[PD] PyPd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:40:30PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:31 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:50:44PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> Hanging as in not responding, but not quitting.  I guess bang/until
>> would do that.  Its tricky to catch.  I guess there needs to be some
>> kind of ping.
>
> I will test it, but that faces the same old can of worms with  
> [until], which is
> to say, what if the user just passed a very very large number to  
> until? (e.g.
> if they are processing a very long list).

Yup, no easy answer.  This is where the timeout comes in.  I can't  
think of another way.

>> The advantage of this using PyPd for the unittest scripts is that  
>> PyPd
>> becomes more robust in the process.  The only issue in my mind is
>> whether PyPd has the same goal in terms of monitoring the pd  
>> process.  I
>> can't see why not, but I suppose there could be a reason.
>
> I am quite happy for you to use PyPd in your unit test script. :)
>
> What do you mean by "the same goal in terms of monitoring the pd  
> process"?
>
> The goal of PyPd is two things: 1) provide an easy way to launch,  
> communicate
> with, and shut down an instance of Pd. 2) provide an easy and  
> general way to
> parse Pd files in order to extract useful information from them.


Those both sound good.  For the unittests, #1 seems more important. I  
guess the question is whether you want to deal with the until/timeout  
problem in PyPd.  I.e. tracking whether a Pd process stops responding  
and providing a way to kill/restart it.

.hc

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