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Diffstat (limited to 'mpv.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | mpv.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -891,6 +891,8 @@ class MPV(object): @property def core_shutdown(self): + """Property indicating whether the core has been shut down. Possible causes for this are e.g. the `quit` command + or a user closing the mpv window.""" return self._core_shutdown def wait_until_paused(self): @@ -935,13 +937,26 @@ class MPV(object): self.unobserve_property(name, observer) def wait_for_event(self, *event_types, cond=lambda evt: True): + """Waits for the indicated event(s). If cond is given, waits until cond(event) is true. Raises a ShutdownError + if the core is shutdown while waiting. This also happens when 'shutdown' is in event_types. + """ with self.prepare_and_wait_for_event(*event_types, cond=cond): pass @contextmanager def prepare_and_wait_for_event(self, *event_types, cond=lambda evt: True): - """Waits for the indicated event(s). If cond is given, waits until cond(event) is true. Raises a ShutdownError - if the core is shutdown while waiting. This also happens when 'shutdown' is in event_types. + """Context manager that waits for the indicated event(s) like wait_for_event after running. If cond is given, + waits until cond(event) is true. Raises a ShutdownError if the core is shutdown while waiting. This also happens + when 'shutdown' is in event_types. + + Compared to wait_for_event this handles the case where a thread waits for an event it itself causes in a + thread-safe way. An example from the testsuite is: + + with self.m.prepare_and_wait_for_event('client_message'): + self.m.keypress(key) + + Using just wait_for_event it would be impossible to ensure the event is caught since it may already have been + handled in the interval between keypress(...) running and a subsequent wait_for_event(...) call. """ sema = threading.Semaphore(value=0) |