simple threads kill my IDLE

[Gilles Lenfant]

Don't run from IDLE scripts with threads unless threads can't
programatically be "killed".
In short don't run from IDLE scripts with threads!
Going to Linux won't change anything (same problem).

Off topic... You should have posted this in a new... thread :)
in this newsgroup.


"Henning VON ROSEN" <hvrosen at world-online.no> a écrit dans le message news:
mpac6.1$yH6.175 at news.world-online.no...
> While playing around width threads executing either interactively or from
> the editmode by "f5", in many cases IDLE froze and forced me to restart
it.
>
> Have anyone experienced such problems?
>
> Is this a general problem of Tkinter? of IDLE? or probably just a newbie
> miscoding?
>
> The same things worked fine when executed outside IDLE, in  a DOS window.
>
> from threading import *
> class adi(Thread):
>  def run(self):
>   e = Event()
>   cheno = "Hello"
>   for litero in cheno:
>       print litero,
>       e.wait(.2)
> a=adi()
> a.start()
> b=raw_input('go on')
>
> It just prints out the letters one by one
> it works in DOS-window but kills IDLE/Tkinter.
> Not every time, though, nut it does produce the first letter of the string
> "H", in a fashion that it ends up last in the printing.
>
> Anyway I am new to threads, so maybe I did it the wrong way!
>
> So what shall I do:
> 1) Avoid threads and IDLE in combination
> 2) Purchase PythonWorks
> 3) Just execute in DOS Windows (If there is a bug, these ugly windows dies
> off, leaving me without feddback error messages! How do I solve that?)
> 4) Migrate to Linux
>
> Most thankful for any hints
>
> amike via Henning VON ROSEN
>
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