Re: [libvirt] Help needed: simple python api to obtain events

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:59:39PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:04:29PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > > Would someone help me have a shrink-wrapped solution for obtaining libvirt > > > > events in python? > > > > > > I decided to re-write the demo program so that is shows a serious > > > production kwalitee event loop implementation that can be used in > > > real world applications. I think you'll find this much nicer :-) > > > > It sure look nicer (though I still don't get the hows and whys). > > However, it seems that you have an issue with python's time.time() > > measured in seconds, not milliseconds. > > Here's a version with more docs & the time in milliseconds

> def run_once(self): > sleep = -1 > next = self.next_timeout() > self.debug("Next timeout due at %d" % next) > if next > 0: > now = int(time.time() * 1000) > if now >= next: > sleep = 0 > else: > sleep = next - now > > self.debug("Poll with a sleep of %d" % sleep) > events = self.poll.poll(sleep) Thanks! but there's still a units problem here (should be sleep/1000. )