On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 06:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/31/2012 3:42 AM, Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is is a bad idea to develop Tkinter applications in IDLE? I understand
> > that IDLE is itself a Tkinter application, supposedly in a mainloop and
> > mainloops apparently don't nest.
>
> In standard configuration, one process runs IDLE, another runs user
> code, including tkinter code. So there should be no interference. The
> example in the tkinter doc runs from IDLE edit window on my system. The
> revised example in coming releases works even better. There have been
> several IDLE bugs fixed in the last few months, and even more since 2.6
> before that. Upgrade if you can to get fixes, suffer the bugs since
> fixed, or patch your 2.6 installation.
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
>
Terry,
It helps to know that an upgrade might improve things. Thank you for
the suggestion. And thanks also to Chris for his remark on .pyc files.
Frederic
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