[Newbie] Tkinter Question

[Randy Day]

In article <DumdnVLDRa4MEFPLnZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, 
best_lay at yahoo.com says...

[snip]

> Anyway, I am happy with the outcome even though I have
> not found a way to detect when the program is force
> killed.  It is unlikely that would ever occur as long

When your peogram starts, have it create
a small file. As part of your graceful
shutdown, delete the file.

Any subsequent processes can test for 
the existence of the file; if it exists, 
your program did not exit gracefully.

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