Python/Tkinter crash.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Eric Brunel wrote:

> AFAIK, Tkinter is not thread safe. Using some kind of lock to serialize  
> the calls from different threads may seem to work (I never tested it  
> actually), but the safest way I found to use threads with Tkinter was to  
> call it only from the thread where the main loop executes.

the Tkinter binding contains some code that attempts to deal with re- 
entrant calls, but I don't know/remember to what extent it's actually 
supposed to work (in other words, if the observed problems are bugs or 
just limitations).

(maybe Martin's memory is better?)

anyway, I usually play it safe and make sure to use a single thread to 
deal with the UI.

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