While loops

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1

hi all,

is there a way to use a while loop to recieve some data while a sensor is on like a camera in open cv etc.
Any small example is very welcome how i could stay inside the blender text editor.

At the moment is my solution to write to a csv file from pycharm and read it in blender, maybe there also a better solution because if i write data inside a while loop the data is only written to csv when the while loop is ending.

I could put the file open inside the loop to send data in every iteration but that make no sense performance whise.

I need a stream that can read the data inside the while loop to get data in real time.

Hope it make sense.

2

yes, but you will want to run it in its own thread, otherwise it will hang the main thread that Blender is using and Blender will appear to lock up.

3

You mean something like this.

import threading
import time



def loop(iterator, lenght):
    while iterator < lenght:
        iterator = iterator + 1
        time.sleep(5)
        print (iterator)


t = threading.Thread(target=loop, name= 'threat1', args=(0, 30))
t.start()