[issue10909] IDLE: thread hang, possibly related to print

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I have since learned the following about accessing tk widgets from non-main threads. 1. It seem to be reliable when tcl/tk is compiled with thread support but not when tcl/tk is not so compiled. (The latter is contrary to a claim in the doc.) 2. The tcl defau

[issue10909] IDLE: thread hang, possibly related to print

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In 3.6.2rc1, the counter has reached nearly 4 after 40 minutes. So no bug in current 3.x. I ran a couple of times with 2.7 and got 3000-4000 both times. I am no longer patching IDLE for 2.7, so closing. -- assignee: -> terry.reedy resolution:

[issue10909] IDLE: thread hang, possibly related to print

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