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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:
> I have come to this conclusion after several years of maintaining a
> scientific plotting package and trying to set up an event loop for
> it. Whereas there are some solutions that more or less work, none of
> them work very well, and the solutions that we found tend to break.
> Other visualization packages are struggling with the same problem.

As you can see, the problem is not familiar to anybody reading
python-dev.

> I'm trying the best I can to explain in my other posts why I feel
> that Tkinter is the underlying reason, and why it would be difficult
> to solve.

Before trying to explain the reason, please try to explain the
problem first. What is it *really* that you want to do which
you feel you currently can't do?

Regards,
Martin