norseman wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: >> norseman wrote: >> >>> This was sent 5/19/09 and as yet has received no comments. >> >>> I'm resending just in case a new reader might have an answer. >> >> If you had posted two tiny scripts demonstrating your problem instead of >> the longwinded explanation I might have tinkered.
> That's one of the problems - with Tkinter you don't get tiny files. :) Nonsense. The minimal Tkinter program is from Tkinter import Tk root = Tk() root.mainloop() The idea is that you remove everything but the parts relevant to your problem (or build a toy example from scratch). This makes it easier for a non-guru to verify a potential answer. That non-guru might even be yourself, by the way. > NOTE: program runs perfectly on both Linux and Windows XP Pro when run > from the keyboard. But not from another python program that wants the > phone line connected. (stdin/stdout) Gee... There is never a County > Lineman when needed is there Glen? :) It's not clear why you need to start the GUI at all as you seem to have control over boths scripts. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list