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<viz>.director
Execute a function asynchronously
| <viz>.director( |
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| function |
| *args |
| **kwargs |
| ) |
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function
A function or callable object
*args
Optional arguments to pass on to the director function
**kwargs
Optional keyword arguments to pass on to the director function
Remarks
This command executes the specified function in a separate thread, thereby allowing you to perform operations that would otherwise halt rendering of the world or the execution of other code within the script. Examples are input/output operations like fileIO and downloading a file from the Internet.
Return Value
None
Example
def example():
file = open('data.txt', 'r')
for line in file:
last = line
file.close()
viz.logNotice('The last line is: ',last)
viz.director(example)
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