[Python-Dev] Event loops, PyOS_InputHook, and Tkinter

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:
> It's not because it likes to be in charge, it's because there's no other 
> way to do it in Python.

As I said: this is simply not true.

> Tkinter is a special case among GUI toolkits because it is married to 
> Tcl. It doesn't just need to handle its GUI events, it also needs to run 
> the Tcl interpreter in between. 

That statement is somewhat deceiving: there isn't much interpreter to
run, really.

> Which is why Tkinter needs to be in 
> charge of the event loop. For other GUI toolkits, I don't see a reason 
> why they'd need their own event loop.

They need to fetch events from the operating system level, and dispatch
them to the widgets.

Regards,
Martin