Scott M <scott.m...@comcast.net> added the comment:
7 years and counting...
My need for a fix is long gone, but I'd like to be able to tell the original
group I worked with whether it's now safe to use tkinter from threads. It looks
like my original guesses were validated and a fix ha
Change by Scott M <scott.m...@comcast.net>:
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nosy: +PythonInTheGrass
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Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue33257>
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Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
I'll look into making the crash easier to reproduce this coming week.
Is Tkinter's thread safety new? Because after I started getting crashes, I did
my due diligence in Google and found a number of people writing about how it
was necessary
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
The new version runs 40 parabolas, then quits. I usually have to run this
version 20 times or so to get the crash, so be patient. In general if it's
going to crash it does so in the first 6 or so parabolas. Caveat: creates up to
40 threads, so
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
If it helps, over the many iterations of this test code, there have been two
kinds of issues:
1. pythonw.exe crashes with the Windows variant of a SEGV. No traceback, just a
crash. These are rare.
2. Evidence of confusion over which string
New submission from Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net:
The more I look at GUI support in Python, the more I realize that the lack of
basic thread safety in GUI support is simply a bug. I know Java's Swing has the
same thread limitation, but that doesn't make it right. Xlib is thread safe
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
I don't have an opinion on 1252236. I'm not certain it would help.
I have an extension that runs a bunch of (alien) threads into Python code. The
threads deliver information for all sorts of real world events, asynchronously.
Multiple threads
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
OK, now all calls to Tkinter are funneled to a single thread, through a queue.
(Technically there are two threads in Tkinter - one is parked in .mainloop(),
the other makes a call to Canvas.create_line and a call to Label.config.)
Different
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
Alright. More digging turned up the Tkinter after function, aka WM_TIMER for
Windowy people like me, and that plus a nonblocking queue get() gets all my
drawing operations back into the mainLoop() thread. Voilà, no more crashes.
Let me suggest
New submission from Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net:
Running on dual core Windows XP.
The function should draw a parabolicish shape for each click on launch. But if
you click Launch over and over, very fast, you get bizarre crashes instead:
Python.exe has encoutered a problem, yadda. tcl85
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
To make this more interesting, I'm trying to push for adoption of Python at a
scripting tool where I work, and I uncovered this crasher in example code I was
about to hand out, under the heading of look how easy Python is. For obvious
reasons
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
Moving to 3.x means redoing large swaths of the extension I just wrote. It's
only a couple thousand lines, but it was my first extension and it cost me a
week of my life in Google, and it does a lot with strings.
I haven't pulled down
Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net added the comment:
It hasn't failed yet when run straight.
Here's the issue, though. I'm going to be introducing Python as the scripting
language of choice, to a bunch of people who are less than fluent in
programming. Because debugging is not an obvious concept
New submission from Scott M scott.m...@comcast.net:
New to Python; be gentle if I've simply missed something. i'M running on
Windows XP, using a recently downloaded 2.7.1. I'm running by hitting F5 in
IDLE.
The attached .py creates 2 threads, one which updates a Tkinter label 10 times
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