[New-bugs-announce] [issue6073] threading.Timer and gtk.main are not compatible

[Eric Atienza]

New submission from Eric Atienza <eric at ericaro.net>:

this simple code:
"
import gtk
from threading import Timer
from time import sleep

def p():
    print "p"

Timer(1, p).start()

#gtk.main()
sleep(10)
print "done"
does print "p" a second after it starts.
when I remove the comment of the gtk.main() line: the "p" is never printed.

It is very exposed, as Timer is a common tool to build a GUI therefore
with the gtk.main() loop active.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 88137
nosy: atienza
severity: normal
status: open
title: threading.Timer and gtk.main are not compatible
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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