[Tutor] Pyhton editor

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 22 09:35:21 CET 2012


On 22/02/12 04:00, ken brockman wrote:

> Being a neophyte to Python, I was under the impression that you had to
> install tkinter independently.of python.

No, its part of the standard library. On some *nix installs tk
support is not compiled in but tkinter should be there. But on Windows 
its always there.

Running it in a separate thread sounds like what this feature is doing. 
But IDLE has been doing that for the last several releases too (since v2.5?)

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