Source code for psychopy.core

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Basic functions, including timing, rush (imported), quit
"""
# Part of the PsychoPy library
# Copyright (C) 2002-2018 Jonathan Peirce (C) 2019-2024 Open Science Tools Ltd.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

import sys
import threading
import subprocess
import shlex
import locale

# some things are imported just to be accessible within core's namespace
from psychopy.clock import (MonotonicClock, Clock, CountdownTimer,
                            wait, monotonicClock, getAbsTime,
                            StaticPeriod)  # pylint: disable=W0611

# always safe to call rush, even if its not going to do anything for a
# particular OS
from psychopy.platform_specific import rush  # pylint: disable=W0611
from psychopy import logging
from psychopy.constants import STARTED, NOT_STARTED, FINISHED
from psychopy.piloting import PILOTING, getPilotMode, setPilotMode, setPilotModeFromArgs

try:
    import pyglet
    havePyglet = True
    # may not want to check, to preserve terminal window focus
    checkPygletDuringWait = True
except ImportError:
    havePyglet = False
    checkPygletDuringWait = False

try:
    import glfw
    haveGLFW = True
except ImportError:
    haveGLFW = False

runningThreads = []  # just for backwards compatibility?
openWindows = []  # visual.Window updates this, event.py and clock.py use it

# Set getTime in core to == the monotonicClock instance created in the
# clockModule.
# The logging module sets the defaultClock to == clock.monotonicClock,
# so by default the core.getTime() and logging.defaultClock.getTime()
# functions return the 'same' timebase.
#
# This way 'all' OSs have a core.getTime() timebase that starts at 0.0 when
# the experiment is launched, instead of it being this way on Windows only
# (which was also a descripancy between OS's when win32 was using time.clock).


[docs]def getTime(applyZero = True): """Get the current time since psychopy.core was loaded. Version Notes: Note that prior to PsychoPy 1.77.00 the behaviour of getTime() was platform dependent (on OSX and linux it was equivalent to :func:`psychopy.core.getAbsTime` whereas on windows it returned time since loading of the module, as now) """ return monotonicClock.getTime(applyZero)
def quit(): """Close everything and exit nicely (ending the experiment) """ # pygame.quit() # safe even if pygame was never initialised logging.flush() # properly shutdown ioHub server from psychopy.iohub.client import ioHubConnection if ioHubConnection.ACTIVE_CONNECTION: ioHubConnection.ACTIVE_CONNECTION.quit() for thisThread in threading.enumerate(): if hasattr(thisThread, 'stop') and hasattr(thisThread, 'running'): # this is one of our event threads - kill it and wait for success thisThread.stop() while thisThread.running == 0: pass # wait until it has properly finished polling sys.exit(0) # quits the python session entirely def shellCall(shellCmd, stdin='', stderr=False, env=None, encoding=None): """Call a single system command with arguments, return its stdout. Returns stdout, stderr if stderr is True. Handles simple pipes, passing stdin to shellCmd (pipes are untested on windows) can accept string or list as the first argument Parameters ---------- shellCmd : str, or iterable The command to execute, and its respective arguments. stdin : str, or None Input to pass to the command. stderr : bool Whether to return the standard error output once execution is finished. env : dict The environment variables to set during execution. encoding : str The encoding to use for communication with the executed command. This argument will be ignored on Python 2.7. Notes ----- We use ``subprocess.Popen`` to execute the command and establish `stdin` and `stdout` pipes. Python 2.7 always opens the pipes in text mode; however, Python 3 defaults to binary mode, unless an encoding is specified. To unify pipe communication across Python 2 and 3, we now provide an `encoding` parameter, enforcing `utf-8` text mode by default. This parameter is present from Python 3.6 onwards; using an older Python 3 version will raise an exception. The parameter will be ignored when running Python 2.7. """ if encoding is None: encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() if type(shellCmd) == str: # safely split into cmd+list-of-args, no pipes here shellCmdList = shlex.split(shellCmd) elif type(shellCmd) == bytes: # safely split into cmd+list-of-args, no pipes here shellCmdList = shlex.split(shellCmd.decode('utf-8')) elif type(shellCmd) in (list, tuple): # handles whitespace in filenames shellCmdList = shellCmd else: msg = 'shellCmd requires a string or iterable.' raise TypeError(msg) cmdObjects = [] for obj in shellCmdList: if type(obj) != bytes: cmdObjects.append(obj) else: cmdObjects.append(obj.decode('utf-8')) # the `encoding` parameter results in unicode coming back if sys.version_info.minor >= 6: proc = subprocess.Popen(cmdObjects, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, encoding=encoding, env=env) else: msg = 'shellCall() requires Python 2.7, or 3.6 and newer.' raise RuntimeError(msg) stdoutData, stderrData = proc.communicate(stdin) del proc if stderr: return stdoutData.strip(), stderrData.strip() else: return stdoutData.strip()

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