[Tkinter-discuss] Deadlock on graceful exit

Wayne Werner wayne at waynewerner.com
Thu May 31 12:56:49 CEST 2012



On Thu, 31 May 2012, Matteo Landi wrote:

> Do you see anything wrong with the description presented above?  Please say so,
> because I can't figure it out!

Yes, though I have not looked at your code, if you're doing what you said and
using threads in a Tkinter app. This will almost always lead to horrible, nasty
bugs. Instead, use the .after() method in Tkinter, and let your app worry about
timing/threading.

HTH,
Wayne


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