[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter hangs in interpreter subprocess

[nadeemabdulhamid]

I am having real problems using Tkinter when launching a Python interpreter
as a subprocess from another program in Windows. Tkinter seems to hang when
the interpreter is not launched from the console, for some reason. I need to
find a way around it, or somehow get it to think that it is being launched
from a console.

Basically, I'm trying to write a simple Python editor in Java and would like
to be able to run an interactive interpreter shell in a pane within the
editor. So I tried launching python from Java, and it works fine except when
I import Tkinter and then create the root Tk() object, it stops accepting
any further input. I've also tried launching the interpreter process from a
Python script using popen and piping the input/output streams, and also from
a native C application -- and in every case it does the same. However, the
Java/Python code works just perfectly on a Macintosh -- it loads the Tkinter
library and does not hang or anything. 

The Java code is posted in another thread:
http://tinyurl.com/2h2dwx
I'm using the latest versions of Java and Python on Windows XP.

I would really appreciate if anyone has any ideas on how I can solve this
problem, or another more appropriate forum to ask the question.

Thanks in advance,

nadeem


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