continuous plotting with Tkinter

[David Douard]

Martin Blume wrote:

> I have a number-crunching application that spits out
> a lot of numbers. Now I'd like to pipe this into a python
> app and plot them using Tkinter, such as:
> $ number_cruncher | myplot.py
> But with Tkinter once  I call Tkinter's mainloop() I
> give up my control of the app and I can't continue to
> read in data from stdin.  Or can I? If so, how?
> 
> Regards
> Martin

Maybe the simpler is to run the Tk mainloop in a separate thread.
You may have a look a candygram which gives a very simple to use
multi-thread semantics (ala Haskell) and is simpler to use than the
threading module.