Doing network traffic in the 'background' from Tkinter app??

[Andrew Markebo]

/ Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com> wrote:
| [...] 
| I can't tell exactly what you're doing from your description, but check
| out Tk's fileevent callback:

Bingo, Thanx!

Basically what I want is to give the user the possibilty to mess
around with my application while it fetches data from THE internet(TM)

Darn, it seems to be Unix only... fungus.. I would like my application
to run on windows also..

        /Andy