On 5/2/2018 6:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:54:04 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
His *other* email seems reasonable, and warrants a response, yes. But are we to take the suggestion made here (to drop tkinter) seriously, based on the fact that there's a (rare - at least it appears that the many IDLE users haven't hit it yet) race condition that causes a crash in Python 2.7? (It appears that the problem doesn't happen in the python.org 3.x builds, if I understand the description of the issue).
I got the same impression, and indeed got no crashes in 25 tries.
I and others actually suggested it seriously in the past. Now, admittedly, at least IDLE seems better maintained than it used to be -- not sure about Tkinter itself.
Serhiy continues to work on tkinter even though he now works on much else. We just made an overlooked 2to3 fix last week. -- Terry Jan Reedy