[Pythonmac-SIG] threads in OSX IDLE

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, juli 2, 2002, at 06:14 , Jeff Senn wrote:

>
> I just built the Mac OS X python with frameworks & Tkinter out 
> of CVS and
> installed idle as tony suggests 
> (http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/tkinter.html)
>
> If I type the following into the resulting IDLE Python Shell window,
> Python crashes:
>
> --snip--
> def foo():
>   print "hello"
>
> import thread
> thread.start_new_thread(foo,())
> thread.start_new_thread(foo,())
> --snip--
>
> ...um... is it supposed to work?

Have you tried threads in IDLE on other (non-OSX) platforms? I 
could imagine that threads and IDLE (or even threads and 
Tkinter) don't go together. Note that I say "could imagine", 
I've never tried it and I haven't heard that it doesn't work, 
but I can imagine problems...

If it works on other platforms then try getting a stacktrace: 
start Python under gdb and get a traceback after it crashed.
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