[Python-Dev] Tkinter lockups.

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> It seems that, on my platform at least, Tk_Init() doesn't like being
> called twice even when the first call resulted in an error. That's Tcl
> and Tk 8.4.12. Tkapp_Init() (which is the Tkinter part that calls
> Tk_Init()) does its best to guard against calling Tk_Init() twice when
> the first call was succesful, but it doesn't remember failure cases. I
> don't know enough about Tcl/Tk or Tkinter how this is best handled, but
> it would be mightily convenient if it were. ;-) I've created a bugreport
> on it, and I hope someone with Tkinter knowledge can step in and fix it.
> (It looks like SF auto-assigned it to Martin already, hmm.)

I have now reported the underlying Tk bug at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1479587&group_id=12997&atid=112997

and worked around it in _tkinter.c.

Regards,
Martin