Bugzilla Bug 204700

Hello,

Please consider including the patch for signal.set_wakeup_fd and
PySignal_SetWakeupFd(fd) into dev-lang/python-2.5*, so that pygobject and pygtk
can work without draining your laptop battery out of juice today, instead of in
months when python2.6 is released.
Once/if this is included, newest pygobject and pygtk will detect the presence
of the new Python C API via configure and use it to not wakeup every 100ms'ish
for no real reason.

Upstream bug here with pointer to commit to python trunk:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1583

pygtk upstream suggestion to include this in distributions today:
http://blogs.gnome.org/johan/2008/01/04/enough-wakeups-in-python-programs/

GNOME upstream bug for solving the power draining/wakeup problem in combination
with PySignal_SetWakeupFd:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569

Thank you for your consideration

Our patchset for python-2.5.1-r5 includes this. Thanks for reporting ;)