Tkinter development with IDLE problem

[Simon Brunning]

I'm sure that this must be in the documentation or FAQ somewhere,
but I can't seem to find it. Anyway - stupid question:

I've just started working through the Tkinter tutorial at
<http://www.pythonware.com>. The first example is a 'Hello world'
thing, as you would expect:

from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
w = Label(root, text='Hello, world!')
w.pack()
root.mainloop()

Now, if I open this .py file with IDLE and run it with F5, it
doesn't work - it just gives me a blank Tk window. Running it with
the standard Python interpreter works fine.

Now, I'm guessing that this is because IDLE is itself using Tkinter,
but is there an easy way of running Tkinter-using modules from IDLE,
or should I drop IDLE for Tkinter development?

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk
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