Ivan Pozdeev <ivan_pozd...@mail.ru> added the comment:

> An automated test would need to fail more consistently, without needing to 
> click.  Running faster would also be good (and perhaps increase failure 
> rate).  The the test would be that the file runs in subprocess without an 
> error (perhaps multiple times).  There may be a test.support function for 
> this.

Thanks for the ideas. I'm on it.

Was thinking of just wrapping the logic with unittest machinery but for a 
subprocess, it's easier to test stderr for exceptions.

> You also claimed that tkinter is so broken, with either threaded or 
> non-threaded tcl/tk

https://bugs.python.org/issue33412

> CPython's current 2.7 windows installer is installing non-threaded 8.5.18.  
> (I have no idea if or how I could check.)

You can check this by seeing that the Tcl/Tk DLLs lack the 't' suffix.

> It would seem then, that we should change to threaded 8.5.18 before 2.7.16. 
> (2.7.15 was just released).

https://bugs.python.org/issue33257#msg316092

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