Allen Taylor wrote: > I was given the task of upgrading a Python/Tkinter GUI application to > the latest versions of Python and Tk. After a while, I realized that the > application had not been written in a thread-safe manner. Multiple > threads would simply use the Tk object directly. The application > apparently ran fine (i.e., didn't crash!) using older versions of Python > (2.2) and Tk (8.3), but it started to have serious problems (i.e., > crashing) after using the latest versions. > > The problem is that there isn't enough budget to fix the whole > application. So, I invested a bit of time to develop mtTkinter, a > thread-safe version of Tkinter. Importing mtTkinter actually modifies > the original Tkinter in such a way to make it thread-safe, recognizing > and diverting out-of-thread calls to the Tk object creation thread via a > queue and an 'after' event. I think it works quite well, requiring > basically no changes to the application other than to import mtTkinter > instead of (or in addition to) Tkinter. Even packages that use Tkinter > (e.g., Pmw) benefit. > > I would like to contribute this module (single file, about 160 lines) to > the Python community, but I don't know how. I'm new to Python and am not > initiated in the deep Pythonic developer world. Can someone give me some > pointers? Many thanks. > You can publish it in the Python package index - see
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ If you want to have it considered for inclusion into future versions of Python then you should post a bug to bugs.python.org wiht your patch as an attachment and the test of the above mail as a rationale for the change. Thanks for going to these lengths to contribute! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
