Tkinter and IDLE

[Gregor Lingl]

Hi!

QUESTION 1:
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It's possible (and sometimes convenient) to develop
Tkinter-programs interactively with IDLE provided
one doesn't write the mainloop() call into the file.
Of course one can add this if one wnats to run the
program standalone.

I wonder if - and how - it were possible to use some test
if a Tkinter.mainloop (in this case the one of IDLE)
is already running, thus having a statement
similar to

if __name__ == '__main__':
      < stuff>

at the end of the program:

if not <mainloop already active>:
     app.mainloop()

so one could run the program from IDLE as well as
from the commandline.

QUESTION 2:
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Is there a special mailing list or something similar
dedicated to Tkinter related stuff?

Thanks in advance
Gregor