Exiting Tkinter when using IDLE

[Batista, Facundo]

I tested the following simple code:

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from Tkinter import *

class App:

    def __init__(self, master):

        frame = Frame(master)
        frame.pack()

        self.button = Button(frame, text="QUIT", fg="red",
command=frame.quit)
        self.button.pack(side=LEFT)

        self.hi_there = Button(frame, text="Hello", command=self.say_hi)
        self.hi_there.pack(side=LEFT)

    def say_hi(self):
        print "hi there, everyone!"

root = Tk()
app = App(root)
root.mainloop()
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I'm on Python 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32.

When I double click the program, it works OK.

When I execute it from IDLE, the first time I push the "QUIT" button, I just
receive a second prompt in IDLE and nothing else happens. The second time I
push the "QUIT" button, the program exits, but also exits IDLE!

Do you know what's happening? With this behaviour it's difficult to develop
using IDLE, :(

.	Facundo