[issue11077] Tkinter is not thread safe

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> As a side note, if Tkinter is intended to be thread safe, the 
> documentation should say so. Clearly, and in the first paragraph.

I'm no Tkinter specialist but, judging by its source code, Tkinter (the Python module) *is* intended to be thread-safe using locking and/or marshalling.

As for wxPython, you are right that it is not thread safe.

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