[Idle-dev] Whose fault? IDLE, PyGame, or TKinter?

[Stephen M. Gava]

What version of idle are you using?  

If it is one of the versions that come as part of the python distribution, 
then that version of idle makes no attempt to run python processes that are 
being 'executed' from the envoronment in a separate thread.  The vpython 
heritage versions of idle (which include idlefork up to release 0.81)  do 
attempt to execute processes in a separate thread, however there are 
currently some problems with that implementation.

Idlefork itself is currently undegoing a massive rewrite of its configuration 
handling mechanism which I hope will be completed by some time early next 
year. After that (if no-one else hops in to start this in the meantime) I 
will move on to the separate process execution code, with a view to cleaning 
things up there and getting the best working implementation in place.

Regards,
Stephen.
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Stephen M. Gava  <elguavas@users.sourceforge.net>
IDLEfork ( http://idlefork.sourceforge.net )  " just like IDLE, only crunchy "