event loops and Python?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> > Looks like that calls a mainloop() method on a Tk toplevel.  This is
> > bad if you're not running in X.
> 
> sorry, failed to parse that.  Tkinter uses X windows on Unix,
> native toolkits on Mac and Windows.  the event loop works
> in the same way on all platforms.  what's the problem here?

Not every UNIX machine has X. Consider a 386 with Linux on it -- putting X
on the poor bastard is plain cruelty <wink>.

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