Python - pythoncom.PumpMessages()

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I'm surprised to see that there is not a lot of explained documentation on the function pythoncom.PumpMessages(), or for the pythoncom module.

So what does pythoncom.PumpMessages() and pythoncom.PumpWaitingMessages()do and how? All I really know about it is used for catching events from input devices.

da Vinci · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-04 12:26:17Z

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The documentation on these methods can be found here.

The relevant bits are:

PumpWaitingMessages: Pumps all waiting messages for the current thread.

PumpMessages: Pumps all messages for the current thread until a WM_QUIT message.

edited Jul 4, 2017 at 12:26

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answered Aug 18, 2015 at 1:05

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Gunner Stone Over a year ago

This isn't super helpful. Not sure what a 'waiting message' is or a 'WM_QUIT'. Microsoft really needs to do better on documenting this. This website does better to provide examples of how to use this function & what it actually does: sourceforge.net/p/pyhook/wiki/PyHook_Tutorial

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