On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Blind Anagram <non...@nowhere.com> wrote: > Thanks to you both for your responses. > > Its an IDE issue of some kind (I am using WING). > > When I run under a command prompt (or IDLE) all is well.
Next time, do mention that sort of environmental consideration in the original post :) As a general rule, be careful of threading and windowing toolkits; quite a few of them have restrictions on what you can and can't do, or even completely do not support threads. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list