Tkinter Crash under PythonWin

Robert Roy rjroy at takingcontrol.com
Mon Nov 12 13:48:34 EST 2001


PythonWin and Tkinter do not play nicely together.

See:

http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/trouble.html

under windows gotchas

Bob

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:38:08 GMT, "Dave Butler"
<davebutlerREMOVE at hotmail.com> wrote:

>I recently began exploring Tkinter programming. I built the following
>program based on similar code in a book:
>
>from Tkinter import *
>
>top = Tk()
>
>quit = Button(top, text='Quit', command=top.quit)
>quit.pack()
>
>mainloop()
>
>
>This simple "app" opens fine and closes when run from a command prompt
>(under Win2000). However, when run from PythonWin (win32all build 140) the
>app does not close and a few clicks later PythonWin crashes with a MS Visual
>C++ runtime error ("abnormal program termination").
>
>Any explanations? Is PythonWin a stable platform for using Tkinter?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave
>
>




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