threads and Tkinter

[Alex Martelli]

Petr Klyushkin wrote:

> Hello again!
> 
> I have one more question about Tkinter. This time it is related with
> threads.  I have a program which uses Tkinter as its GUI toolkit.  It
> runs a separate "worker" thread for doing some time-consuming
> operation.  Sometimes worker thread has to update GUI.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965

It's also in the printed Cookbook, with some minor enhancements,
but you can get the gist from the online-posted version at this URL.


Alex