Why not event-driven packages in other than the main thread?

[Lawrence Oluyede]

Tor Erik <torerik81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've developed an application were I've used Tkinter for the GUI.
> When I ran the GUI in another thread than the main, it kept locking
> up.

That's because Tkinter is not thread safe AFAIK.

> I experienced similar problems with Twisted.

Neither Twisted is thread-aware. It uses thread for a couple of things
(twisted.row and address resolution). You can call stuff in a separate
thread with deferToThread or callInThread but avoid threads is best. 

> But could anyone tell me why running these in a thread other than the
> main one doesn't work?

Because neither Twisted nor Tkinter are meant to work with threads.

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