Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Eric Brunel wrote: > >> It may be a platform-specific issue: On Unix/Linux, a window *does* >> appear when you instantiate Tk, at least with tcl/tk 8.3 and 8.4 >> (which is the latest stable version AFAIK). > > same on Windows, but it often appears *beneath* the window you're typing > into, so you have to look for it in the task bar. > > this also relies on Python being able to keep the Tkinter event loop > going behind the scenes; different command-line implementations have > different limitations. > > for example, on Windows, the event loop runs only when you're at an > empty Python prompt; as soon as you start typing the next command, the > interpreter switches over to "text input mode", and the event loop is > paused until you press return. > > </F> >
I thought it might be something like that. A window doesn't appear for me at all, but it may be because I haven't updated Tkinter since installing Python, so maybe it's a little older. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list