Tkinter -- the best way to make a realtime loop

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On Oct 8, 7:15 pm, J Wolfe <vorticitywo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both for your replies.  I had something similar to this:
>
> def incr():
>   var.set(1 + var.get())
>   root.after(1000, incr)
>
> except I had an extra set of parenthesis...
> def incr():
>   var.set(1 + var.get())
>   root.after(1000, incr())
>
> on the function which was screwing it up. Also needed to have a
> root.update() to refresh the GUI.

Mmmmm, no? The root.update() should not be necessary: the triggering
of the action specified in after(...) is done by the tk mainloop when
it's idle, and if it's idle, it means that it already has updated the
display. So no update() should be needed. What happens if you remove
it?