TKINTER glitch on 2.2.2

[Burt Leavenworth]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:09:55 GMT, Howard Lightstone
<howard at eegsoftware.com> wrote:

>edlsoft at mindspring.com (Burt Leavenworth) wrote in
>news:3e1e22e0.12108310 at news1.news.adelphia.net:
>
>>>Burt Leavenworth wrote:
>>>> I am upgrading from 1.5.2 to 2.2.2 but now my GUI applications which
>>>> work on 1.5.2 no longer work properly.
>>>> 
>
>> from Tkinter import *
>> import sys
>> win = Tk()
>> button = Button(win, text = 'Goodbye',command = sys.exit)
>> button.pack()
>> mainloop()
>> 
>
>> 
>> There must be some dumb omission.
>> 
>> Burt
>
>The proper way to exit mainloop() cleanly is to call the quit() method.
>
>However, I assume you called this with python.exe. There is a known bug (SF 
>#453489 or #216289 ??) with Tk 8.3  and earlier which will cause the task 
>to hang forever (you can't kill it since it gets hung in the task 
>termination processing).  You can use pythonw.exe and get better results 
>there.  
>

Yes, when I use pythonw.exe it works just fine. Thanks for the info.

Burt