Message 127996 - Python tracker

Message127996

Author	pitrou
Recipients	PythonInTheGrass, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, cgohlke, loewis, pitrou, terry.reedy
Date	2011-02-05.15:28:33
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Message-id	<1296919713.84.0.946309757939.issue11077@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> As a side note, if Tkinter is intended to be thread safe, the > documentation should say so. Clearly, and in the first paragraph. I'm no Tkinter specialist but, judging by its source code, Tkinter (the Python module) is intended to be thread-safe using locking and/or marshalling. As for wxPython, you are right that it is not thread safe.

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> As a side note, if Tkinter is intended to be thread safe, the 
> documentation should say so. Clearly, and in the first paragraph.

I'm no Tkinter specialist but, judging by its source code, Tkinter (the Python module) *is* intended to be thread-safe using locking and/or marshalling.

As for wxPython, you are right that it is not thread safe.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-05 15:28:33	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, terry.reedy, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, cgohlke, PythonInTheGrass
2011-02-05 15:28:33	pitrou	set	messageid: <1296919713.84.0.946309757939.issue11077@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2011-02-05 15:28:33	pitrou	create