gobject.MainLoop and tornado.IOLoop at once?

Question

How can you run two event loops in one application?

I need to use tornado.IOLoop (WebSocket client) and gobject.MainLoop (pygtk) in one Python program.

Update: Threadless solutions are preferred.

Answer 1

You can try my gioloop.py. This is a IOLoop implementation with gobject.io_add_watch, so it's a single-threaded solution.

Answer 2

You could use a thread

import threading
threading.Thread(target=my_ioloop.start).start()