This example shows how to call Python functions that take a long time to execute.
The function creates a separate thread that needs to be polled to see if it finished, each time the function is called. This allows us to have a long-running python function that does not block Arma itself.
Pseudocode:
index = 35 # This should be slow enough to last a few seconds
thread_id = call_slow_fibonacci(index)
while not has_call_finished(thread_id):
print('Waiting for the task to finish...')
time.sleep(0.3)
value = get_call_value(thread_id)
print(f'Fibonacci number {index} equals to {value}')Note that the directory name is irrelevant. The package name depends on the
contents of the $PYTHIA$ file only!
The addons directory contains a dummy PBO file to force Arma to load it as a mod (which lets Pythia know that it should search the directories next to the addons directory for Python code). You can omit that file as long as you have any PBO in your mod (which should always be the case unless you're making a pure-Python mod).