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Re: Tkinter: IDLE can't get out of mainloop

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On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 06:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/31/2012 3:42 AM, Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is is a bad idea to develop Tkinter applications in IDLE? I understand
> > that IDLE is itself a Tkinter application, supposedly in a mainloop and
> > mainloops apparently don't nest.
> 
> In standard configuration, one process runs IDLE, another runs user 
> code, including tkinter code. So there should be no interference. The 
> example in the tkinter doc runs from IDLE edit window on my system. The 
> revised example in coming releases works even better. There have been 
> several IDLE bugs fixed in the last few months, and even more since 2.6 
> before that. Upgrade if you can to get fixes, suffer the bugs since 
> fixed, or patch your 2.6 installation.
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy
> 

Terry,
	It helps to know that an upgrade might improve things. Thank you for
the suggestion. And thanks also to Chris for his remark on .pyc files.

Frederic

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Re: Tkinter: IDLE can't get out of mainloop Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-04-02 12:56 +0200

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