prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
Provide a method in the event loop to 'process events' or 'do one iteration'
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Description
Many libs that has an event loop provide a method to ask the event loop to process all pending events and then return, for example, qt's QCoreApplication::processEvents(), matplotlib's canvas.flush_events(), ipython kernel's kernel.do_one_iteration(). Such a method is very convenient when integrating multiple event loops in a big program. Maybe I missed it, I couldn't find something equivalent in prompt-toolkit yet.
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Research direction
Start by locating prompt-toolkit's event loop implementation and its public entry points, then compare the requested behavior with QCoreApplication::processEvents(), canvas.flush_events(), and kernel.do_one_iteration(). Done means the event loop exposes a documented way to process pending events and return for integration with another event loop.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100