----- Original > One thing you should be careful about, though, is that threads don't work > nicely with Tkinter (and especially IDLE) --- so don't try to test your > threading code within IDLE, or else bad things happen. > > (This is explained in: > http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470&func=detailbug&bug_id=121963 > ) > I know all about that :)