I would like to know how to pause a QThread and then resume when I get a signal. I have read and know that I can do something like this: def run(self): ... self.ready=False while not self.ready: self.sleep(1) ... ... @QtCore.Slot() def set_ready(self): self.ready = True However, what I want to do is avoid the polling in the thread. I don't want to have to set the sleep to a short amount of time and keep checking. I want to go to sleep until I get a signal from my main thread to continue. What I am doing in my thread is this: (pseudo code) with open file: read a block of data while data: sendThread = send the block via UDP read the next block of data while not ready or sendThread.isRunning: sleep(0.1) In my main thread I have setup a QtNetwork.QUdpSocket to connect readyRead to a method to handle incoming datagrams and decode them. When it gets the response that I'm waiting for it sends a signal to the set_ready slot to tell the thread to send another datagram. I don't always know how long it will take for the other system to respond, though I will likely have some long timeout value of 30seconds or so. Is there a way to interrupt the sleep of the thread? so I could do something like this: sleep(30) if not ready: Timeout occurred stop processing else: Continue processing. Continue reading...
