Tkinter application 'freezes' while continually polling Pipe for contents (multiprocessing)

Question

I have two scripts:

Processor_child.py: Its purpose is to perform a number of data analysis and cleaning operations. This must perform the same operatio

Answer 1

Your Connection.poll() call is busy-waiting and chewing through the CPU. But note that Connection objects have a fileno() method; this means you can use select/poll calls to put your process to sleep while waiting for them to become ready for I/O. Note that the tkinter event loop supports file handlers to allow you to do this without blocking the UI.