event loops and Python?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <gGfy4.1996$oN5.548168 at tw11.nn.bcandid.com>,
Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
>
>Background: I have big mailboxes.  I want to write a mail user agent
>that feels snappy on 200MB mailboxes, which is more a matter of maximal
>response time than average response time, but involves both.  I want it
>to be tty-based.  I want it to do background processing when it's not
>responding to me.  And I don't like threads.

If you want tty, you can't use Tkinter.
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