Noted on the quoting thing. Regarding the threading, well, first, I'm not so much a programmer as someone who knows a bit of how to program.
And it seems that the only way to update a tkinter window is to use the .update() method, which is what I was experimenting with. Start up a new thread that just loops the .update() with a 1ms sleep until the download is done. It seems to work, actually. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
